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·March 21, 2019·3 min read

Researchers point to a common cause in sudden death syndromes

An opinion article reports on a potential common cause for both SIDS and SUDEP. The reason sudden death may occur is due to a person's inability to wake when CO2 levels in the blood rise, as a result of dysfunctional serotonin neurons in the midbrain.

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·April 21, 2016·5 min read

Mapping Neurons Implicated in Parkinson’s Motor Impairment

Researchers have mapped out a circuit of neurons responsible for motor impairment in Parkinson's disease patients.

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·March 18, 2021·4 min read

Parsing Dopamine’s Different Pain Sensitivity Role in Males and Females

Focusing attention on a neural pathway starting at the periaqueductal grey region of the midbrain, researchers made a novel discovery about how dopamine generates different pain responses in male and female mice. Findings indicate dopamine may reduce pain sensitivity in males, whereas, in females, dopamine helps focus attention elsewhere in the presence of pain.

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·May 25, 2017·5 min read

Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain

Findings shed light on possible causes for reading disorders such as dyslexia.

a diagram showing how pain and taste converge in the brain

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·March 12, 2019·3 min read

Neuroscientists Find Brain Pathway Supporting an Intersection of Taste and Pain

Researchers have identified a pathway near the midbrain where neural messages for taste and pain converge, a new study reports.

Image shows fibers of the rat vagus nerve.

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·January 5, 2017·5 min read

Parkinson’s Protein Travels From Brain to Gut

Researchers report alpha-synuclein, a protein associated with Parkinson's disease, can travel from the brain to the gut by following a specific path.

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·November 26, 2018·5 min read

Neural Code that Predicts Behavior Identified

Differences in activity between the left and right superior colliculi help researchers predict whether an animal was seeing an event.

Image shows candy sprinkles on a woman's lips.

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·March 6, 2017·6 min read

Not So Sweet? This Is What Happens to the Brain When You Give Up Sugar for Lent

Decided to cut back on sugary treats? A new article considers why it might not be such a sweet idea for all.

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·October 18, 2013·3 min read

Observing Brain Activity During Learning Errors

Mistakes made during the associative learning process activate two distinct neural networks in the brain, researchers discover.

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·January 23, 2020·4 min read

A rat had basically no brain, but it could still see, hear, smell, and feel

Rat R222 was born with hydrocephalus. Neuroimaging revealed most of its brain had compressed and collapsed as it filled with fluid. However, despite its condition, the animal was still able to see, hear, smell, and feel like other animals. The study sheds new light on neuroplasticity, and the findings could have implications for the development of new machine learning technologies.

This shows the outline of a person drinking. The brain highlights the reward system.

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·March 2, 2026·6 min read

Trick the Brain, Taste the Reward: How Expectations Rewrite Sweetness

Expectation is the secret ingredient. New neuroimaging research reveals that believing a drink contains sugar can "supercharge" the brain's reward response to artificial sweeteners.