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·December 3, 2021·4 min read

Can Seven Questions Determine How Wise You Are?

Wisdom is strongly and positively associated with resilience, happiness, and mental well-being, and negatively correlated with loneliness, depression, and anxiety.

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Featured Neuroscience

·November 24, 2021·6 min read

We Might Not Know Half of What’s in Our Cells, New AI Technique Reveals

New artificial intelligence technology reveals previously unknown cell components. The findings may shed new light on human development and diseases.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 23, 2021·4 min read

How Value Decisions Are Coded Into Our Brains

Persistency allows value signals to be most efficiently coded across the brain, specifically in the retrosplenial cortex.

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Featured Neuroscience

·November 8, 2021·3 min read

Want to Throw off Your Chatbot? Use Figurative Language

When chatbots are faced with human interaction containing similes and idioms, their performance falls to between 10 to 20%.

Widely Used Assembling and Stabilizing Forces Behind Brain Synapses Identified

The planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling pathway appears to play a significant role in the formation and maintenance of a large number of synapses.

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Featured Neuroscience

·October 6, 2021·8 min read

Mapping the Mouse Brain, and by Extension, the Human Brain Too

New collaborative studies shed light on the organization of cells in key areas of the mouse brain and the organization of transcriptome, epigenomic, and regulatory factors that provide the brain cells with purpose and function.

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·September 27, 2021·5 min read

Withdrawal From Psychostimulants Restructures Functional Architecture of Brain

Withdrawal from psychostimulants including methamphetamines, cocaine, and nicotine, produced restructuring of brain regions and major increases in functional connectivity, a new mouse study reveals.

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·August 23, 2021·4 min read

Eyes Provide Peek at Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

The presence of amyloid-beta deposits in the retina correlated with cerebral amyloid levels in those with Alzheimer's disease. The findings may lead to methods for the earlier detection of Alzheimer's.

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·August 18, 2021·6 min read

Researchers Develop the First Steerable Catheter for Brain Surgery

Researchers have developed a new, flexible and steerable catheter that allows surgeons to guide the device in any direction while traversing the brain's arteries and blood vessels.

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·August 18, 2021·5 min read

Key Mechanisms Behind Synapse Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Brain Discovered

Study identifies the main components driving amyloid beta-associated synaptic degeneration.

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·August 10, 2021·2 min read

Young, Healthy Woman Suffers Brain Inflammation After Mild COVID-19 Infection

Mainly associated with COVID infection in the elderly, researchers report a young, otherwise healthy woman was diagnosed with COVID-19 CNS vasculitis following infection.