Neuroscience

COVID-19 lockdowns prematurely aged teenage brains, study finds

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world implemented restrictive measures—such as stay-at-home orders and school closures—to mitigate the spread of the respiratory illness. It's been well-documented ...

Neuroscience

Navigating the future: Brain cells that plan where to go

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered a region of the brain that encodes where an animal is planning to be in the near future. Linked to internal maps of spatial locations and ...