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·June 6, 2018·5 min read

How the Brain Performs Flexible Computations

A new neural model reveals how the brain is able to adapt and process new information, researchers report.

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·June 4, 2018·4 min read

Protein Pair Quickly Makes Memories of New Places

A new study reveals how neurogranin and FMRP help encode memories of new places.

Featured Neuroscience

·March 19, 2018·5 min read

Decision Making is Shaped by Individual Differences in the Functional Brain Connectome

Researchers report individual differences in functional brain connectivity reflects differences in how certain intrinsic connectivity networks engage during decision making.

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Featured Neuroscience

·January 11, 2018·5 min read

Blind in the Mind: Why Some People Can’t See Pictures in their Imagination

Researchers report on why some people experience aphantasia, the inability to imagine in images.

Featured Neurology

·November 6, 2017·4 min read

Higher Brain Glucose Levels May Mean More Severe Alzheimer’s

A new NIH study reveals abnormalities in brain glucose metabolism could be linked to the severity of Alzheimer's pathology.

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·August 24, 2017·6 min read

How the Human Brain Detects the ‘Music’ of Speech

Researchers at UCSF discover neurons in the superior temporal gyrus change activity depending on where emphasis falls in a sentence.

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·June 30, 2017·2 min read

Research Suggests Association Between Gut Bacteria and Emotion

A new study identifies gut bacteria that appears to interact with brain areas associated with mood and behavior.

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·June 26, 2017·5 min read

Insomnia Medication May Wake Some Patients From Vegetative State

Zolpidem, a medication commonly prescribed for insomnia, appear to be effective in helping to restore a conscious state in some patients who were in comas or vegetative state.

Featured Genetics Psychology

·June 7, 2017·6 min read

Social Experience Tweaks Genome Function to Modify Future Behavior

Researchers have identified the activity of a genetic network that responds to social stress in mice.

Featured Neurology Psychology

·May 8, 2017·4 min read

Brain Injuries Cause Impulse Control Problems: Rat Study

Study confirms TBI can cause impulse control problems.

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·May 2, 2017·7 min read

Researchers Create a Roadmap of Bipolar Disorder and How It Affects the Brain

Reviewing brain scans of bipolar patients, researchers observe notable differences in the thickness of gray matter in areas of the brain associated with motivation and control inhibition compared to those without the disorder.