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New research from Carnegie Mellon University reveals that dendritic spines—the tiny structures that help brain cells communicate and form memories—don't fit neatly into a few categories. Instead, they display a continuous ...
Sep 8, 2026
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Where and how does an Alzheimer's tangle begin? A new study by neuroscientists at Columbia University challenges a long-held assumption about the source of toxic tau proteins, which form neurofibrillary tangles and are closely ...
Sep 2, 2026
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Scientists at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have discovered how an experimental therapy can help brain cells overcome the effects of a disease-causing genetic deletion. Instead of repairing the ...
Jul 28, 2026
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The ability to adapt behavior flexibly to changing environments is a hallmark of intelligence. However, the biological mechanisms in the brain that are responsible for this cognitive flexibility remain poorly understood.
Jul 22, 2026
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Branchlike structures called dendrites that extend from neurons appear to make their own computations independent of the cell body, helping individual brain cells store memories of the past, respond to the present and anticipate ...
Jul 17, 2026
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Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the eyes see, not every neuron ends up answering the call to process properties of visual input. Maybe ...
May 14, 2026
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive, FDA-approved therapy that uses brief magnetic pulses to treat depression, particularly in patients who do not respond to medication. Yet scientists have long struggled ...
May 7, 2026
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When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons so each one can adjust ...
Mar 14, 2026
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Recent technological and scientific advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, which is in turn leading to interesting new discoveries. Over the past few years, many groups of neuroscientists worldwide ...
The neurons in our brain that underlie thought connect to each other using tiny branch-like structures on their surfaces known as dendritic spines. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and their colleagues have ...
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