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How Your Brain Decides Between Knowledge and Ignorance

Neuroscience NewsJune 26, 2018

Researchers report the brain's reward network could play an influential role in evaluating the opportunity to gain new information, just as it does to evaluate rewards such as food or financial gain.... Read More...

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Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Emotion Identified

Neuroscience NewsJune 13, 2018

Researchers shed light on the mechanisms behind the anxiolytic CRH circuit in the ventral tegmental area of the brain.... Read More...

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Detecting Diminishing Dopamine Firing Cells in Brain Could Reveal Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

Neuroscience NewsMarch 27, 2018

According to researchers, if the ventral tegmental area is unable to produce the correct amount of dopamine for the hippocampus, it will not work efficiently and the impairment can result in dementia.... Read More...

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In Pursuit of Pleasure, the Brain Learns to Hit the Repeat Button

Neuroscience NewsMarch 2, 2018

According to researchers, the brain learns to reproduce brain activity patterns that lead to reward. The findings could lead to new avenues for treating addiction and OCD, researchers report.... Read More...

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How the Brain Selectively Remembers New Places

Neuroscience NewsDecember 27, 2017

MIT researchers have identified a brain network that allows the brain to record memories of new places.... Read More...

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Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments for Addiction and Anxiety

Neuroscience NewsNovember 10, 2017

Researchers have identified a specific network in the brain that appears to be associated with risk and reward assessment.... Read More...

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Higher Estrogen Levels Linked to Increased Alcohol Sensitivity in Brain’s Reward Center

Neuroscience NewsNovember 7, 2017

Neurons in the ventral tegmental area, an area of the brain considered to be the reward center, fire more rapidly to alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated, a new study reports. The study may shed light on how alcohol addiction develops in some women.... Read More...

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A New Target For Marijuana

Neuroscience NewsOctober 16, 2017

Findings shed light on the effect of marijuana on the developing brain and provide a target for cannabis use disorder.... Read More...

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How ‘Love Hormone’ Oxytocin Spurs Sociability

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 29, 2017

Researchers pinpoint the brain circuitry involved in social reward and shed new light on oxytocin's role in social behavior.... Read More...

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Low-Dose Diazepam Can Increase Social Competitiveness

Neuroscience NewsJuly 18, 2017

Researchers from EPFL have uncovered how diazepam, a common anxiolytic, can increase mitochondrial activity in neural pathways associated with motivation.... Read More...

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Alcoholism May Be Caused by Dynamical Dopamine Imbalance

Neuroscience NewsMarch 10, 2017

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the development of alcoholism.... Read More...

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Illuminating the Neurons of Social Attraction

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 30, 2017

Optogenetics and brain imaging techniques allow researchers to identify a small cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus that trigger attraction, a new study reports.... Read More...

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New study reshapes understanding of how the brain recovers from injury

Brain-inspired AI inspires insights about the brain (and vice versa)

Inflammation inhibitor blocks neurodevelopmental disorders in mouse model

Neuroscience

New study reshapes understanding of how the brain recovers from injury

Brain-inspired AI inspires insights about the brain (and vice versa)

Inflammation inhibitor blocks neurodevelopmental disorders in mouse model

Neurology

New study reshapes understanding of how the brain recovers from injury

Inflammation inhibitor blocks neurodevelopmental disorders in mouse model

Experimental blood test accurately spots fibromyalgia

AI

Brain-inspired AI inspires insights about the brain (and vice versa)

AI and MRIs at birth can predict cognitive development at age 2

A robotic leg, born without prior knowledge, learns to walk

Robotics

The robots that dementia caregivers want: Robots for joy, robots for sorrow

Seeing through a robot’s eyes helps those with profound motor impairments

A robotic leg, born without prior knowledge, learns to walk

Psychology

Trigger Warnings Do Little to Reduce People’s Distress, Research Shows

Deep brain stimulation provides sustained relief for severe depression

Bartonella Infection and Sudden Onset Adolescent Schizophrenia: Case Study

How Your Brain Decides Between Knowledge and Ignorance

Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Emotion Identified

Detecting Diminishing Dopamine Firing Cells in Brain Could Reveal Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

In Pursuit of Pleasure, the Brain Learns to Hit the Repeat Button

How the Brain Selectively Remembers New Places

Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments for Addiction and Anxiety

Higher Estrogen Levels Linked to Increased Alcohol Sensitivity in Brain’s Reward Center

A New Target For Marijuana

Alcoholism May Be Caused by Dynamical Dopamine Imbalance