Machine Learning Reveals How Genes Shape Behavior
Summary: Machine learning is helping researchers uncover the genetic influence on foraging behaviors in mice. Source: University of Utah Health Mice scurry…
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EEG Study Reveals How the Brain Infers Task Rules and Structure
A new study reveals how the brain rapidly constructs inferred contexts and rules when learning new tasks—even when such structure does not…
Why Some People Adapt to Fear Faster: What Science Says
Summary: A new study identifies the brain circuits that explain why individual animals respond differently to repeated visual threats. Using advanced neural…
Certain Gene Variants Raise Bipolar Disorder Risk
Summary: Researchers at MIT report that the synaptic protein CPG2 is markedly reduced in the brains of people with bipolar disorder (BD).…
Neanderthals Could Hear and Speak Like Modern Humans
Summary: New research shows Neanderthals had auditory and vocal capacities comparable to modern humans, enabling them to perceive and produce human speech.…
Hydroxychloroquine Slows Disability in Progressive MS
Summary: Hydroxychloroquine appears to slow some measures of disability progression in people with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, according to a University of…
Rapamycin Linked to Increased Alzheimer’s Plaques in Mice
Summary: Rapamycin, a drug approved for cancer and transplant patients, increases amyloid-beta plaques in the brains of an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model.…
How Happiness Shaped Human Brain Evolution
Summary: New research identifies an unexpected developmental role for serotonin in human neocortex formation. Serotonin functions outside cells as a growth factor…
Mapping the Developing Brain: Imaging Methods and Key Findings
Summary: Researchers combined single-cell and spatial genomic technologies to assemble a high-resolution molecular atlas of the developing mouse cerebral cortex. Source: Harvard…
Low-Dose Ketamine Delivers Rapid Relief for Depression
Summary: Researchers at the University at Buffalo have pinpointed how low-dose ketamine relieves depressive symptoms by selectively binding to specific sites on…
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