From the The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine media release: Mount Sinai researchers have achieved an unprecedented understanding of the genetic and molecular machinery in human microglia — immune cells that…
From the NIH/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research news release: An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings, which could inform development of…
From the Columbia University Irving Medical Center press release: Legend has it that Marie Antoinette’s hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate — hair that has already…
From the University of Massachusetts Amherst press release: A scientific team has shown that the release of neurotransmitters in the brain is impaired in patients with schizophrenia who have a rare, single-gene mutation known to…
From the University of Helsinki press release: Research has shown that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon have so far…
From the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health press release: Children exposed to elevated levels of air pollution may be more likely to have poor inhibitory control during late childhood and poor academic skills…
From the University of California – Berkeley press release: A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new research from…
From the University of Texas at Austin press release: Lead exposure in childhood may lead to less mature and less healthy personalities in adulthood, according to a new study lead by psychology researchers at The…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: When people see a toothbrush, a car, a tree — any individual object — their brain automatically associates it with other things it naturally occurs with, allowing humans…
From the University at Buffalo press release: Children who eat slower are less likely to be extroverted and impulsive, according to a new study co-led by the University at Buffalo and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.…