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Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·May 3, 2012·6 min read

Scientists Show How a Gene Duplication Helped Our Brains Become ‘Human’

Extra copy of brain-development gene allowed neurons to migrate farther and develop more connections; findings may offer clue to autism...

Featured Neuroscience

·September 7, 2012·3 min read

A Brain Filter for Clear Information Transmission

Frequently, as many as one thousand signals rain down on a single neuron simultaneously. To ensure that precise signals are delivered, the brain possesses a sophisticated inhibitory system. Scientists have now illuminated how this system works.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 21, 2012·4 min read

Research Identifies Protein that Regulates Key Fate Decision in Cortical Progenitor Cells

Researchers solved an important piece of one of neuroscience's outstanding puzzles: how progenitor cells in the developing mammalian brain reproduce themselves while also giving birth to neurons that will populate the emerging cerebral cortex, the seat of cognition and executive function in the mature brain.

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Featured Neuroscience

·August 24, 2014·4 min read

Driving Brain Rhythm Makes Mice More Sensitive to Touch

Using optogenetics, researchers endow mice with greater touch sensitivity.

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Featured Neuroscience

·January 16, 2015·2 min read

Implanting Fear

Researchers report noradrenaline and Hebbian plasticity work in tandem to form memories of fearful events.

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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·March 31, 2015·2 min read

Tracking Dendritic Activity During Learning Reveals How the Brain Encodes and Stores Information

A new study provides additional insight into how the brain stores and encodes new information.

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Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·April 7, 2015·3 min read

Scientists Discover Important Communication Mechanism Between Two Brain Areas Implicated in Schizophrenia

Disruptions in an inhibitory brain circuit between the thalamus and prefrontal cortex may underlie cognitive disorders such as schizophrenia.

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Featured Psychology

·May 4, 2015·5 min read

Three Previously Unrelated Theories About Cause of Schizophrenia Linked

New research could lead to new treatment strategies for the underlying causes of schizophrenia.

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Featured Neuroscience

·June 23, 2015·5 min read

Synapses Last as Long as the Memories They Hold

A new study confirms that synapses between hippocampal neurons remain for the duration of an episodic memory.

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Featured Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 3, 2015·5 min read

Mechanism for Unhealthy Brain Aging Associated with Alzheimer’s Identified

Researchers report they have discovered a link between unhealthy brain aging and a protein responsible for regulating calcium.

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Featured Neurology Pain

·October 12, 2015·4 min read

Chronic Pain is in the Brain

A new study reports on the role of HCN channels in pain processing.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·December 17, 2015·5 min read

Shedding Light on How the Brain Processes Visual Information

A new study helps further understanding on how the brain processes visual information.

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