How Cortisol Influences PTSD Risk
Summary: Researchers investigated how stress hormones such as cortisol affect the risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Using a rat model…
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Role of Serotonin in Sleep: What Research Shows
Summary: New Caltech research shows that serotonin produced by neurons in the raphe nuclei is essential for normal sleep in both zebrafish…
Animal Memory Discovery Fuels Research into Memory Disorders
Indiana University researchers have found that rats can remember not just facts, but the source of those facts — how they acquired…
How Naming Neurons Could Transform Brain Disease Treatment
Summary: Researchers present a unified framework for naming and classifying the many cell types of the cerebral cortex, a step that could…
Music for Study and Sleep: New Research on Focus and Relaxation
Summary: Analysis of Spotify listening data by researchers at Aarhus University reveals that the music people choose for studying and the tracks…
How Learning Changes the Brain
Summary: Using advanced live-cell super-resolution imaging, researchers have observed new patterns of molecular organization that form as neuronal connections grow stronger during…
Preventing Cytokine Storms Could Reduce Severe COVID-19 Symptoms
Summary: Early treatment with alpha-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists (alpha blockers) may reduce the risk of cytokine storm in some COVID-19 patients. These…
Overdose and Suicide: Major Causes of Postpartum Maternal Deaths
Summary: Between 2010 and 2012, suicides and drug overdoses accounted for nearly 20% of postpartum deaths among women in California. Source: UC…
Why Physiological Responses to Emotions Vary
Summary: New meta-analytic research challenges the long-held belief that each emotion produces a single, consistent physiological pattern. Instead, bodily responses to emotions…
How Live Music Ignites Emotions in the Brain
Summary: Live music produces markedly stronger emotional responses in the brain than recorded music. Using real‑time measurements of amygdala activity, researchers found…
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