It is the relative silence between the firing spikes of neurons that shows what they are really up to, a new study suggests. “The brain appears to use these durations […]
Remote fear attenuation in the brain is connected to the activity of the same group of neurons that are also involved in storing these memories, scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale […]
Direct evidence of a connection between hippocampal function and early memory ability has been found in a study from researchers at the University of California, Davis. Our ability to remember […]
The placenta’s critical role in the nature versus nurture debate and how it confers risk for schizophrenia and likely other neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD, autism, and Tourette syndrome, is detailed […]
Neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body’s large, leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles, a new […]
Time can seem to pass at different rates. As Albert Einstein once joked: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit […]
The flow of cerebrospinal fluid is a key signal for neural stem cell renewal, new research from a team of researchers headed by Professor Magdalena Götz and their collaborators from […]
Social isolation causes the build-up of a particular chemical in the brain, a team of Caltech researchers has discovered. Importantly, they also found that blocking this chemical eliminates the negative […]
