Neuroscience
Q&A: Research reveals how the brain sets your body's dinner clock
When you eat is just as important as what you eat.
Aug 28, 2023
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Neuroscience
Baby neurons in adult brains are needed to maintain memory: Study
A quarter-century ago, researchers discovered that adults, not just developing infants, can generate new brain cells, a process called neurogenesis. But it's still not clear what role these new neurons play in health or disease.
Aug 23, 2023
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Neuroscience
Cracking the code that relates brain and behavior in a simple animal
To understand the full relationship between brain activity and behavior, scientists have needed a way to map this relationship for all of the neurons across a whole brain—a so far insurmountable challenge. But after inventing ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Neuroscience
How consciousness may rely on brain cells acting collectively—new psychedelics research on rats
Psychedelics are known for inducing altered states of consciousness in humans by fundamentally changing our normal pattern of sensory perception, thought and emotion. Research into the therapeutic potential of psychedelics ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Neuroscience
Uncovering the role of somatostatin signaling in the brain
Somatostatin, a signaling molecule produced by many inhibitory neurons in the brain, broadly dampens communication among a variety of cell types in the prefrontal cortex and promotes exploratory and risk-taking-like behavior ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists identify brain mechanism that drives focus
Trying to finish your homework while the big game is on TV? "Visual-movement" neurons in the front of your brain can help you stay focused, according to a new study from neuroscientists in the Perelman School of Medicine ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Medical research
Researchers find that the brain controls vitamin balance in the body
In a new study, scientists from the University of Aberdeen looked at vitamin A and how the brain reacts to it. Vitamin A is essential for life but until now it was not known how it is maintained in the body.
Aug 9, 2023
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Medications
Exploring how psychedelic drugs affect a rat's brain
Researchers at Lund University have developed a technique for simultaneously measuring electrical signals from 128 areas of the brain in awake rats. They have then used the information to measure what happens to the neurons ...
Aug 8, 2023
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Neuroscience
Insulin-like hormones critical for brain plasticity, research suggests
Research from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has identified a mechanism through which insulin-like growth factors facilitate brain plasticity.
Aug 4, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A boost in dopamine during adolescence permanently amplifies dopamine function, impulsivity, and aggression in mice
In a breakthrough finding researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center identified a sensitive developmental period during adolescence that impacts adult impulsivity, aggression, and dopamine function in mice.
Aug 3, 2023
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