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Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience

·May 9, 2022·4 min read

Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Treating Neuropathy From Spinal Cord Injuries

Gene therapy that inhibits targeted nerve cell signals effectively improves symptoms of neuropathic pain without negative side effects in mouse models of spinal cord injury or peripheral nerve damage.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·April 13, 2022·6 min read

How Cannabis Affects Our Cognition and Psychology

Researchers investigate how cannabis can influence a number of cognitive and psychological processes.

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·January 26, 2022·4 min read

New Links Between Brain Over-Activity and Schizophrenia Symptoms

Over-activity in the hippocampus has been linked to certain symptoms of schizophrenia.

Autism Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 5, 2022·5 min read

Link Between Brain Chemical and Visual Processing in Autism

When GABA targets are activated, visual processing for people on the autism spectrum becomes more like that of non-autistic people.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 2, 2022·4 min read

Sleeping Mice Show Busy Brains

Findings reveal the brain may optimize visual information processing depending on its conscious state.

Autism Featured Neuroscience

·December 10, 2021·2 min read

Human Brain Development Study Sheds Light on Neurodevelopmental Disorders

A new investigation into interneuron development sheds light on how disorders associated with neurodevelopment, such as autism and schizophrenia may occur.

Featured Neuroscience Pain Psychology

·October 18, 2021·5 min read

Brain Circuitry Identified That May Be Responsible for Negative Emotional Aspects of Pain

A new rodent study uncovers a neural circuit in the brain that appears to govern pain-induced anhedonia. Altering the activity of this circuit restored motivation in pre-clinical models of pain.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 6, 2021·4 min read

Significant Proportion of People With Parkinson’s Disease Struggle With Instruction-Based Learning

Study reports a significant number of people with Parkinson's disease have precise deficits when learning from instructions. Researchers say the problems are associated with differences in brain function.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 2, 2021·4 min read

Beyond Dopamine: New Reward Circuitry Discovered

Researchers have identified a new reward system in the brain. The study found long-range GABA neurons from the ventral tegmental area to the ventral nucleus accumbens shell are engaged in reward and reinforcement behaviors. This GABAergic projection inhibits cholinergic interneurons.

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Featured Neuroscience

·July 27, 2021·6 min read

Eating for Hunger or Pleasure? Regulating These Feeding Behaviors Involves Different Brain Circuits

The brain regulates both eating for hunger and pleasure through serotonin-producing neurons in the midbrain, but the different types of feeding are wired by independent circuits that do not influence the other type of feeding.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·July 22, 2021·3 min read

Neurotransmitter Levels Predict Math Ability

A new study found a person's math ability was linked to levels of GABA and glutamate in the brain. In children, greater math fluency was associated with higher GABA levels in the left intraparietal sulcus, while lower levels of GABA were linked to math ability in adults. The reverse was true for glutamate in both children and adults.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 24, 2021·5 min read

Why Does Food Smell so Good When We’re Hungry?

A study of hungry mice sheds new light on the neurobiology of olfaction and food attraction. Researchers identified a pathway that promotes attraction to food odors over other olfactory cues.

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GABA

Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Treating Neuropathy From Spinal Cord Injuries

How Cannabis Affects Our Cognition and Psychology

New Links Between Brain Over-Activity and Schizophrenia Symptoms

Link Between Brain Chemical and Visual Processing in Autism

Sleeping Mice Show Busy Brains

Human Brain Development Study Sheds Light on Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Brain Circuitry Identified That May Be Responsible for Negative Emotional Aspects of Pain

Significant Proportion of People With Parkinson’s Disease Struggle With Instruction-Based Learning

Beyond Dopamine: New Reward Circuitry Discovered

Eating for Hunger or Pleasure? Regulating These Feeding Behaviors Involves Different Brain Circuits

Neurotransmitter Levels Predict Math Ability

Why Does Food Smell so Good When We’re Hungry?

Brain Blends Fast and Slow Signals to Shape Human Thought

Immune Signal Ratio May Predict Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Early Screen Time Linked to Long-Term Brain Changes, Teen Anxiety

Missing Brain Receptor May Hold the Key to Autism

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