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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

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·March 25, 2024·6 min read

Can Rhythm Sense Predict Language Skills?

Researchers developed the Speech-to-Speech Synchronization (SSS) test to explore how individuals align their speech with language rhythms, revealing innate differences that could influence language acquisition and neurological health. The study found that individuals can be categorized into high and low synchronizers, with high synchronizers displaying stronger neural connections related to language perception and production.

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·November 22, 2017·3 min read

Neuroimaging Study Reveals Brain Difference in People With ADHD

Researchers report MRI neuroimaging may help to identify people with ADHD and help to distinguish between different subtypes of the disorder.

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·April 12, 2016·4 min read

How The Brain Produces Consciousness in Time Slices

Researchers report consciousness arises only in time intervals of up to 400 milliseconds, with gaps of unconsciousness in between.

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·August 17, 2022·4 min read

How DDT Exposure Contributes to Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

DDT exposure causes sodium channels to remain open, leading to increased neural firing and an increased release of amyloid beta peptide. Blocking the channels with tetrodotoxin reduces the toxic amyloid protein by increasing the production of the amyloid precursor protein.

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·February 11, 2017·5 min read

Broken Pebbles Offer Clues to Paleolithic Funeral Rituals

Researchers report humans may have destroyed objects to remove their symbolic power up to 5,000 years earlier than previously thought.

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·May 25, 2019·5 min read

Pilot study opens new possibilities for AI to enhance cognitive performance

A new deep learning system, dubbed, CURATE.AI, creates individualized profiles for training can be customized to improve cognitive performance.

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·February 21, 2019·4 min read

Prenatal Phthalate Exposure Linked to Motor Skill Deficiencies at Age 11

A new study links exposure to phthalates during pregnancy and an increased risk of motor skill deficits in 11 year old children.

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·February 27, 2025·7 min read

Brain Map Reveals Early Signs of MS Before Symptoms Appear

Researchers have created a four-dimensional brain map that reveals how MS-like lesions form, providing new insights into the earliest stages of the disease. Using a marmoset model instead of mice, they tracked lesion development in real time with MRI imaging, identifying vulnerable brain regions weeks before visible damage occurred.

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·June 12, 2016·4 min read

Activity of Nerve Cells in Freely Moving Animal Analyzed by New Robotic Microscope System

Researchers successfully use a robotic microscope to reveal the functional diversification of nerve cells that release dopamine.

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·August 12, 2022·4 min read

Inverse Relationship Found Between Cancer Diagnosis and Alzheimer’s Disease

Dementia patients with a history of cancer demonstrate better cognition at dementia diagnosis than their peers with no history of cancer.

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·December 22, 2025·9 min read

Smiling Faces Trigger Mimicry, and Make Us Trust Them More

People instinctively mimic others’ facial expressions, but new research shows we do this far more with joyful faces than with sadness or anger—and that the intensity of mimicry predicts how much we trust someone. Across three experiments using EMG and behavioral tasks, participants copied smiles more readily and rated smiling individuals as more attractive, confident, and trustworthy.

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·November 29, 2016·5 min read

Religious Beliefs Activate Neural Reward Circuits in Same Way As Sex and Drugs

Powerful spiritual feelings were associated with activation in the nucleus accumbens, an area of the brain associated with reward, a new study reports.