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Many everyday skills, such as speech, are not innate. They are learned through trial and error. Now, by analyzing young songbirds rehearsing their fathers' songs, researchers at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have for the ...
Mar 28, 2025
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For the first time, scientists have confirmed a neurobiochemical link between dopamine and cognitive flexibility, according to new research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. PET imaging shows ...
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Using a novel quantitative chemoproteomic strategy, a research group led by Prof. Wang Chu from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University has uncovered a protective role of dopamine (DA) in regulating ...
Mar 21, 2025
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To uncover what drives sexual behavior in animals, researchers studied the brain activity of male mice throughout the series of actions involved in sex leading up to ejaculation. Their results, published in Neuron, show that ...
Mar 19, 2025
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New research out of Michigan State University expands on current understanding of the brain chemical dopamine, finding that it plays a role in reducing the value of memories associated with rewards. The study, published in ...
Mar 12, 2025
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The opioid epidemic has claimed more than half a million lives in the U.S. since 1999, about three-quarters of them men, according to the National Institutes of Health. Although men's disproportionate rates of opioid abuse ...
Mar 10, 2025
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A smartphone's glow is often the first and last thing we see as we wake up in the morning and go to sleep at the end of the day. It is increasingly becoming an extension of our body that we struggle to part with. In a recent ...
Marijuana-like endocannabinoids produced by your own body—how do they travel through the brain? It turns out that these fatty messenger molecules are transported in fatty vesicles. This surprising discovery contrasts with ...
Feb 24, 2025
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Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a phone number.
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]Eating an orange a day may lower a person's depression risk by 20%, according to a study published in Microbiome. That might be because citrus stimulates the growth of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (F. prausnitzii), a type ...
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