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Brain’s fight and flight responses to social threat

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From the Society for Neuroscience press release: A study published in eNeuro exploring the neural correlates of the ‘fight-or-flight’ response finds that people who choose to flee perceive a greater threat, which leads them to mentally… 

New tool offers snapshots of neuron activity

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From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: Many cognitive processes, such as decision-making, take place within seconds or minutes. Neuroscientists have longed to capture neuron activity during such tasks, but that dream has remained elusive… 

How the cortex assigns credit for causality

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From the Brown University press release: When you do something right, you can’t learn anything from your success without a system in the brain for assigning credit to whatever action led to the desired outcome. Say,… 

Interventions to prevent cognitive decline, dementia

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From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine press release: Cognitive training, blood pressure management for people with hypertension, and increased physical activity all show modest but inconclusive evidence that they can help prevent cognitive… 

Snail study suggests select memories can be erased

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From the Columbia University Medical Center press release: Different types of memories stored in the same neuron of the marine snail Aplysia can be selectively erased, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University…