From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: When you expect a really bad experience to happen and then it doesn’t, it’s a distinctly positive feeling. A new study of fear extinction training in mice…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release: Interoception is the awareness of our physiological states; it’s how animals and humans know they’re hungry or thirsty, and how they know when they’ve had enough…
From the University of California – San Diego press release: Employing advanced technologies that allow whole brain imaging at single-cell resolution, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that in an…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release: Storing and retrieving memories is among the most important tasks our intricate brains must perform, yet how that happens at a molecular level remains incompletely understood. A new…
From the Princeton University press release: Have you ever played with a baby and felt a sense of connection, even though they couldn’t yet talk to you? New research suggests that you might quite literally…
From the University of Alberta press release: New research from University of Alberta neuroscientists shows that the brains of adolescents struggling with mental-health issues may be wired differently from those of their healthy peers. This…
From the Aalto University press release: How mammals perceive light changes between night and day. Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki discovered that mice were better at finding a dim light in…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release: Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have successfully used a laser-assisted imaging tool to “see” what happens in brain cells of mice learning to reach out and grab a…
From the Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan press release: 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…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Brain activity synchronizes with sound waves, even without audible sound, through lip-reading, according to new research published in JNeurosci. Listening to speech activates our auditory cortex to synchronize with…