From the NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine press release: Researchers have discovered a mechanism by which the body’s immune reaction to viruses like influenza and HIV may cause learning and…
From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) press release: New research from scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus shows that distant parts of the brain are called into action to store a…
From the Universität Tubingen press release: Sleep helps us to retain the information that we have learned during the day. We know from animal experiments that new memories are reactivated during sleep. The brain replays…
From the American Psychological Association press release: People who struggle to cope with uncertainty or the ambiguity of potential future threats may have an unusually large striatum, an area of the brain already associated with general…
From the American Physiological Society (APS) press release: A new study suggests that fetal alcohol exposure (FAE) reduces the taste system’s responsiveness to the bitter flavor and burning sensation of many varieties of alcoholic beverages. These…
From the Frontiers press release: In a recent Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience paper, Drs. Della David and Frank Baumann together with their teams at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Hertie Institute, showed that…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release: In a new study presented in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have measured how deposits of the pathological protein tau spread through the brain over the course of Alzheimer’s…
From the North Carolina State University press release: A recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) finds that “moral enhancement technologies” — which are discussed as ways…
From the University of British Columbia press release: New research from the University of British Columbia confirms for the first time that even mild brain injury can result in impulse control problems in rats. The…
From the Queen Mary University of London press release: A study by researchers from Queen Mary University of London establishes for the first time the extent of neuronal loss in the brain of a person…