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Hormone therapy for postmenopausal brain performance has no effect, whether started...

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A study led by a scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that hormone therapy has a negligible effect on verbal memory and...

Scientists pinpoint a neural center of resilience

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Why some people handle stress better than others is a question that has fascinated scientists for decades. Now a Yale-led team reports that flexible...

Seeing RNA at the nanoscale

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MIT researchers have developed a new way to image proteins and RNA inside neurons of intact brain tissue.Image: Yosuke Bando, Fei Chen, Dawen Cai,...

Human brain houses diverse populations of neurons, new research shows

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A team of researchers has developed the first scalable method to identify different subtypes of neurons in the human brain. The research lays the...

Empathy for others’ pain rooted in cognition rather than sensation

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The ability to understand and empathize with others' pain is grounded in cognitive neural processes rather than sensory ones, according to the results of...

Our brain activity could be nudged to make healthier choices

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Our brain activity could be nudged in the direction of making more healthy choices, say scientists. Credit: © Electrolux Design Lab/ Flickr Netflix binge-watching versus...

In the brain, one area sees familiar words as pictures, another...

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  Skilled readers can quickly recognize words when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts which functions separately...

Long-term marijuana use changes brain’s reward circuit

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Chronic marijuana use disrupts the brain's natural reward processes, according to researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas. In...

Study shows how judgment of sensory simultaneity may develop in the...

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A new study in the model organism of tadpoles reveals how the brain develops the ability to sense when different sensory inputs are simultaneous...

Brain power: Why do humans have the largest cerebral cortex?

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Immunostaining after two weeks of differentiation of neural progenitor cells into neurons. Credit: Neha Rani Compared to other mammals, humans have the largest cerebral cortex. A...

New technique captures activity of an entire brain in a snapshot

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This density map of the cerebral cortex of a mouse shows which neurons get activated when the animal explores of a new environment. The...