From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Pain sensitivity associated with alcohol withdrawal may activate the same brain region in both drinking and non-drinking mice, finds a study published in eNeuro. Monique Smith and colleagues previously…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: Columbia scientists have identified the brain’s ‘aha!’ moment — that flash in time when you suddenly become aware of information, such as knowing the answer to…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped…
From the Harvard University press release: Harvard scientists have gained new insights into how the brain networks important for thought and remembering are organized in individual people, bringing the notion of using brain scans to…
From the University of Kansas press release: A month before they are born, fetuses carried by American mothers-to-be can distinguish between someone speaking to them in English and Japanese. Using non-invasive sensing technology from the University…
From the Wake Forest University press release: As student athletes hit training fields this summer to gain the competitive edge, a new study shows how the experiences of a tiny mouse can put them on the…
From the University of Bath press release: The causes of severe antisocial behaviour may differ between boys and girls, which could pave the way for new sex-specific treatments, according to a major new study published…
From the SINC press release: The rhythms of brainwaves between two people taking part in a conversation begin to match each other. This is the conclusion of a study published in the magazine Scientific Reports,…
From the University of Edinburgh press release: Changes in the brain’s structure that could be the result of depression have been identified in a major scanning study. Alterations were found in parts of the brain known…