How the Brain Reveals Decision-Making in Real Time
Summary: This study tracks how and where zebrafish brains convert dynamic visual motion into a directional choice, revealing how sensory evidence is…
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Higher Education Improves Recovery After Traumatic Brain Injury
Higher Education Associated with Better Recovery After Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury People with higher levels of education are significantly more…
How Reptilian Brain Regions Shape Emotion and Social Behavior
Summary: A new Northwestern Medicine study reveals continuous communication between the human brain’s social cognitive network — the regions responsible for understanding…
How the Brain Uses Predictability and Randomness to Time Actions
Summary: A new study finds that when an action is executed the brain combines predictable and random components, processed in distinct frontal…
Scientists Restore Neurons in Dementia Mouse Model
Summary: Chemically stimulating specific neurons and providing an enriched environment reverses structural and connectivity changes in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia,…
How Depression Changes Brain Structure
Summary: A large brain imaging study finds reduced white matter integrity in people with major depressive disorder, highlighting structural changes that may…
Study: Morning Chronotype Linked to Higher Anorexia Risk
Summary: New genetic research links anorexia nervosa with an early-morning chronotype and also identifies an increased genetic risk for insomnia in people…
Study Finds Motor Cortex Drives Learning of Movement Patterns
Motor Cortex Shows Plasticity During Motor Learning, UC San Diego Study Complex, skilled movements—like a tennis serve or a pianist’s concerto passage—depend…
Learned Taste Aversion: How It Reshapes Brain and Behavior
Summary: Learned avoidance of specific tastes depends on a long-term reduction in activity at the connections between brain regions that detect threat…
How Puberty Affects the Ability to Recognize Faces
Summary: Researchers report that as adolescents move toward adulthood, they begin to perceive faces differently. Source: Penn State Faces are as distinctive…
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