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·April 7, 2025·6 min read

How One Bad Meal Rewires the Brain to Avoid That Food Forever

A new study reveals how a single food poisoning experience creates long-lasting aversive memories in the brain. Researchers found that mice developed strong aversions to a flavored drink after getting sick, even with a 30-minute delay between consumption and illness.

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·October 2, 2024·6 min read

First Full Brain Map of Adult Fruit Fly Created

Researchers have created the first neuron-by-neuron map of an adult fruit fly brain, marking a major achievement in brain mapping. The map, built using 21 million images, connects nearly 140,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, making it the most complex brain map of any adult animal to date.

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·November 3, 2023·8 min read

Decoding Brain Signals: Study Shines Light on Neural Pathways

Researchers used the simple worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, to gain profound insights into how neural information flows in the brain. Using advanced techniques like optogenetics, they visually tracked signal flow in real-time, neuron by neuron, to chart its pathways.

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·October 21, 2021·7 min read

People’s Eyes Reveal That Clichés Are Underrated

Eye-tracking reveals the brain pays more attention to conventional metaphors than it does to similar alternatives.

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·November 25, 2020·5 min read

Basketball on the Brain: Neuroscientists Use Sports to Study Surprise

Researchers monitored brain activity and eye movement of basketball fans watching March Madness games to study how people process surprise.

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·September 21, 2020·5 min read

Middle-Aged Americans Report More Pain Than the Elderly

Middle-ages adults are reporting more chronic pain symptoms than older generations. Those who are less educated are more likely to report symptoms of chronic pain.

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·March 19, 2020·8 min read

Loners help society survive

Evolution does select for loner behavior, at least in slime molds. Loners provide both an ecological and evolutionary way to diversify a genetic portfolio to ensure the survival of the social, collective behavior.

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·August 22, 2018·4 min read

The Spotlight of Attention is More Like a Strobe

A new study EEG study reveals human and monkey attention pulses in and out four times per second.

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·June 29, 2018·4 min read

Applying Computing Power to Track the Spread of Cancer

A new computational model increases the ability to track the spread of cancer throughout the body, researchers report.

Autism Featured Neuroscience

·December 8, 2017·5 min read

Hope for Autism: Optogenetics Shines Light on Social Interactions

Optogenetics helps researchers discover how social behavior and spatial learning are linked in autism.

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·June 29, 2017·4 min read

People Prove Adept at Predicting Emotional Transitions

While it is easy for most of us to read the emotions of those around us at a given time, researchers suggest that people are also skilled at predicting future emotions in others, thanks to a mental model of emotional transitions.

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·May 26, 2017·5 min read

Monkey Say: Marmosets Learn to Call the Same Way Human Babies Learn to Babble

Just as a baby's babbles begin to sound more like recognizable human speech if they receive frequent vocal feedback from adults, the same kind of interaction speeds up speech acquisition in marmosets, a new study reveals.