From the Yale University press release by Bill Hathaway: When it comes to addiction, sex matters. A new brain imaging study by Yale School of Medicine researchers suggests stress robustly… Read more »
From the Stowers Institute for Medical Research press release: Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called “synapses”. But how do these synapses stay strong and keep… Read more »
From the MIT press release: MIT postdoc Emile Bruneau has long been drawn to conflict — not as a participant, but an observer. In 1994, while doing volunteer work in… Read more »
From the Temple University press release: A protein recently discovered in the brain could play a key role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques… Read more »
From the Max Planck Institute press release: The brain is a fantastically complex and mysterious device, too large and with too many internal connections to be entirely programmable genetically. Its… Read more »
From the Elsevier press release: A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release via AlphaGalileo: In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists now have a better understanding of the way that stress impacts the brain. New research, published by Cell Press in the… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist… Read more »
From the Wiley-Blackwell press release via EurekAlert!: New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to… Read more »
