How the Brain Weighs Risk When Making Decisions
Why This Matters: Why this matters: Reveals neural mechanisms that explain how people balance exploration and exploitation when facing potential rewards or…
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New ALS Research Reveals Promising Treatment Strategy
Summary: Post-mortem analysis of brain tissue from people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) shows an abnormal, hyperphosphorylated form of tau protein mislocalized…
Study Finds Early Communication with Infants Affects Autism Risk
Summary: Researchers find that caregivers who talk and respond to their infants boost language development. This benefit applies to all children, including…
Why Small Similarities Spark Attraction
Summary: People who score high on self-essentialism—the belief that personal attributes stem from a deeper, stable “essence”—are more likely to be attracted…
New Method Detects Motor-Related Brain Activity
Summary: Using a nonlinear signal-processing approach on experimental recordings, researchers have revealed a clear link between motor behavior and brain activity. These…
Connectomics Maps Neural Circuit Driving Male Roundworm Mating
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have mapped the complete wiring diagram for the section of the nervous…
Depression Linked to Faster Cellular Aging and Higher Mortality
Accelerated Cellular Aging Detected in Major Depressive Disorder Using the GrimAge Methylation Clock Summary: DNA methylation markers in blood cells from people…
Study: Aspirin May Halt Acoustic Neuroma Growth
Findings published in the February issue of Otology & Neurotology Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Institute…
Olfactory Adaptation: How Smell Adjusts to the Environment
Summary: New study explains how olfactory neurons change their gene activity to adapt to different scent environments. Source: University of Geneva Olfactory…
Spinal Implant Restores Walking After Spinal Cord Injury
Scientists have validated a world-first, minimally invasive brain-machine interface designed to control an exoskeleton using thought. The interface uses a stent-based electrode,…
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