A team of researchers at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has found what they describe as the central master driver of psychosocial stress responses in rats. In their paper published in the journal ...
Each day, humans and animals rely on habits to complete routine tasks such as eating and sleeping. As new habits are formed, this enables us to do things automatically without thinking. As the brain starts to develop a new ...
Feb 27, 2020
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An array of tests that combines functional assessment with blood tests and brain scans promises more sensitive and objective estimation of brain degeneration in human veterans exposed to battlefield improvised explosive device ...
Feb 24, 2020
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In the early 1990s, more than 100,000 children in Romania were living in overcrowded, under-funded orphanages. They suffered from severe neglect, having little interaction with caretakers.
Feb 21, 2020
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Coffee or tea? Sweater or coat? These decisions seem simple, but they require you to consider how the future might play out.
Jan 31, 2020
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One day, a scientist in Craig Ferris's lab was scanning the brains of very old rats when he found that one could see, hear, smell, and feel just like the other rats, but it was walking around with basically no brain—and ...
Jan 23, 2020
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Remarkably, scientists are still debating just how to reliably determine whether someone is conscious. This question is of great practical importance when making medical decisions about anesthesia or treating patients in ...
Dec 23, 2019
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You're on a diet, but the aroma of popcorn in the movie theater lobby triggers a seemingly irresistible craving.
Dec 11, 2019
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FIU doctoral student Maanasa Jayachandran is working to unravel the mystery of how the brain recalls memories in the correct order.
Dec 4, 2019
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With any addiction in which a user has successfully resisted a chemical, activity or substance, relapse is vexing. And with opioids, it's often deadly. Fatal overdoses following relapse from an opioid addiction is reaching ...
Dec 2, 2019
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