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·July 6, 2020

Owner Behavior Affects Effort and Accuracy in Dogs’ Communications

Owners who are encouraging increased their dog's showing effort for finding a toy, but decreased their showing accuracy. Read More

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·June 16, 2020

The “Love Hormone” Oxytocin can also give rise to aggressive behavior

Using optogenetics, researchers were able to manipulate oxytocin producing cells in a highly precise manner. They discovered oxytocin can amplify aggression as well as social friendliness. Read More

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·June 15, 2020

Brothers in arms: The brain and its blood vessels

Blood vessels can sense the metabolic state of nearby neurons. An imbalance of fatty acids is sensed by neural blood vessels, stimulating them to mount a stress response by loosening the blood-brain barrier. If the imbalance remains, the leaky blood-brain barrier can induce a disease state. Read More

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·June 12, 2020

Research links personality traits to toilet paper stockpiling

Those who score high on the personality traits of conscientiousness and emotionality are more likely to panic buy and stockpile under the threat of a natural disaster. Read More

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·May 19, 2020

Observing the freely behaving brain in action

A newly developed head-mounted miniature microscope can capture images of all cortical layers of a freely moving rat. Read More

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·May 19, 2020

Brain structure that controls our behavior discovered

Researchers implicate the inferior frontal junction area in controlling behavior and executive function. Read More

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·April 28, 2020

How the heart affects our perception

Brain activity alters over the heartbeat cycle, helping us make sure certain information is kept out of our conscious experience. The findings provide a conceptual framework to explain how internal signals integrate into our conscious perception of the world. Read More

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·April 3, 2020

Lucy had an ape-like brain

Endocranial imprints of Australopithecus afarensis revealed they had an ape-like brain organization. Evidence was also found of protracted brain growth, which suggests infants may have had a longer dependence on caregivers, just like humans. Read More

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·April 2, 2020

Mice make different facial expressions based on emotion

Mouse show different facial expression depending on their emotional state. Using machine learning, researchers were able to link five different emotional states to the facial expressions of mice. Read More

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·March 23, 2020

Tuberculosis BCG-based vaccine may be effective against COVID-19

VPM1002, a vaccine candidate based on the tuberculosis BCG vaccine, may be effective in protecting against COVID-19. Previous studies in mice have shown the BCG vaccine is effective at protecting against several respiratory viral infections. If effective against coronavirus, researchers hope the vaccine can bridge the time gap until a specific SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is available. Read More

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·March 9, 2020

Brain-doping produced by your own body

Cognitive challenges trigger a slight oxygen deficit in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. This increases the production of erythropoietin (Epo) and its receptors in the active neurons, stimulating neighboring precursor cells to form new neurons and enhancing connectivity. Read More

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·March 9, 2020

The brain has two systems for thinking about others’ thoughts

Study reveals two different brain structures are implicated in implicit and explicit theory of mind, and both regions mature at different ages to fulfill their function. The supramarginal gyrus matures earlier, enabling theory of mind to occur slightly earlier than believed. Full ability for theory of mind occurs at age four when the temporoparietal junction matures. Read More

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