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A Lack of Self Control during Adolescence Is Not Uniquely Human

August 21, 2019

Structural, functional, and neurophysiological comparisons between us and macaque monkeys show that this difficulty in stoppi...

Insight into Cells' 'Self-Eating' Process Could Pave the Way for New Dementia Treatments

August 21, 2019

A recent peer-reviewed, observational study conducted in cells has shed light on the mechanisms behind autophagy and how...

Neuroscientists Make Major Breakthrough in 200-Year-Old Puzzle

August 13, 2019

Many explanations for Weber's Law have been proposed through the years

Scientists Discover Some Fruit Flies Learn Better Than Others

August 8, 2019

Scientists use fruit flies to find nine new genes associated with learning and memory, many of which are similar in people...

Do Babies like Yawning? Evidence from Brain Activity

July 29, 2019

A new study from Chuo University suggests that five- to eight-month-old babies show face-specific brain activity in resp...

How Procrastinators and Doers Differ Genetically

July 12, 2019

Women with poorer action control had a genetic predisposition toward higher dopamine levels, however, researchers were unable...

First Complete Wiring Diagram of an Animal's Nervous System

July 8, 2019

Recent findings involving the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans mark a major milestone in the field of 'connectomics...

Pain Signaling in Humans More Rapid Than Previously Known

July 5, 2019

The discovery of a rapid pain-signaling system challenges our current understanding of pain

How You and Your Friends Can Play a Video Game Together Using Only Your Minds

July 2, 2019

A University of Washington team created a method that allows three people to work together to solve a problem using only thei...

Hidden Consciousness Detectable with EEG Just Days after Brain Injury

July 1, 2019

Patients with such signs of consciousness are more likely to recover

New Research Shows Parkinson's Disease Origins in the Gut

June 27, 2019

Experiments in mice show transmission of nerve-killing protein from the gut into the brain

First Step Toward a Better Prosthetic Leg? Trip People Over and Over

June 21, 2019

Vanderbilt team builds device to capture stumble response

First Blood-Brain Barrier Chip Using Stem Cells Developed

June 12, 2019

"The study's findings create dramatic new possibilities for precision medicine," researcher says

Alzheimer's Disease Protein Links Plaques to Cell Death in Mice

June 6, 2019

CAPON may facilitate the connection between the two most well-known AD culprits, amyloid plaques and tau pathology

How We Make Complex Decisions

May 17, 2019

Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that helps break decisions down into smaller pieces

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