When the human head experiences any kind of movement—from nodding yes or no to heading a soccer ball or being jolted in a car crash—the brain moves inside the skull, leading to deformation of the tissue. Such deformations ...
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Averting our eyes from things that scare us may be due to a specific cluster of neurons in a visual region of the brain, according to new research at the University of Tokyo, published in Nature Communications.
Jul 13, 2023
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Neuroscientists have uncovered a new function for a molecule that is found to be essential for brain communication, which could potentially improve brain function in individuals with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Jun 16, 2023
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A middle-brain region tied to the control of emotions likely prompts females to kill their young, a new study in mice shows. With the region also present in humans, the study authors say the findings could play a similar ...
Jun 7, 2023
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A recent Northwestern Medicine study has demonstrated how neocortical brain networks fluctuate in synchrony to support neural mechanisms that allow information to enter working memory and change goals on the fly.
Jun 5, 2023
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A new study led by Yale School of Medicine scientists has pinpointed why some adults—by some estimates, at least 50% of the population after 75 years of age—develop hearing problems.
May 16, 2023
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How do our brains become capable of creating specific memories? In one of the first preclinical studies to examine memory development in youth, a research team at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) may have identified ...
May 16, 2023
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A new publication released today in The EMBO Journal identified a key protein in the molecular mechanism triggering neurogenesis in the hippocampus. They found that tight regulation of Yap1 activity is essential as dysregulation ...
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Johns Hopkins researchers, along with colleagues in Italy, have published a study in Science Advances that looks into the genetic mechanisms behind the development of schizophrenia.
Before undergoing surgeries and other invasive medical procedures, patients typically undergo anesthesia. Anesthesia consists in giving patients a class of drugs (i.e., anesthetics) that cause them to lose feeling in specific ...
