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·September 23, 2016·5 min read

How Does Our Brain Decide Whether A Situation is Pleasant or Not?

Researchers have identified a mechanism that allows us to judge whether a difficult social situation is emotional negative or positive.

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·September 21, 2016·4 min read

Stimulating Neurons Could Protect Against Brain Damage

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that allows neural networks to protect against the spread of secondary brain damage as seen in TBI and ischemic stroke.

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·September 20, 2016·3 min read

How the Brain Separates Relevant and Irrelevant Information

Researchers have developed a new theory that outlines how the brain separates relevant from irrelevant information.

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·September 20, 2016·6 min read

Alcohol, Tobacco and Time Spent Outdoors Linked to Brain Connections

Researchers have released data from the world's largest brain and body scanning study.

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·September 14, 2016·5 min read

Clues to How ‘Super-Agers’ Retain Young Memories

A new study sheds light on how some older people retain youthful thinking abilities and the brain circuits that support those abilities.

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·September 13, 2016·6 min read

Brain Network That Controls Spread of Seizures Identified

Researchers created a computer model based on direct brain recordings from epilepsy patients and discover the existence of a network of neural regions directly involved in seizures.

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·September 12, 2016·4 min read

Synaptic Connectivity Motifs Contribute to Efficient Memory Retrieval in Hippocampus

Researchers combine functional connectivity analysis and network modeling to investigate synaptic mechanisms of pattern completion in hippocampal CA3 network.