Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden identified the mechanism that makes people decide to intervene and help others in danger. It turns out, the system that protects us from
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A team of researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences CSIC-UMH in Alicante, Spain, managed to obtain images of brain inflammation using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance, according to a study published in
Portuguese scientists discover a new neural pathway to explain how we learn a new skill
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A research team from the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, discovered a new mechanism in the brain to help us learn new skills, according to a study published in the
Only one in five people get addicted to cocaine thanks to the protective effects of serotonin on the brain, according to a team of researchers from the University of Geneva,
A team of researchers from CNRS and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France develop the first prototype for an artificial neuron, according to a study published in Science (1). As
Plasticisers found in many objects we use every day can cause severe brain damage, according to a study published in Nature (1). Biologists from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, showed
The modern human brain developed around 1.7 million years ago in Africa, according to a study published in Science (1). This involved not only an increase in brain size but
Neuropsychiatric drugs that “work” in mice fail to cure brain disorders in people. Why?
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A new study published last week on 21 August in the journal Nature may have shed some light on why studies on the mouse brain just don’t seem to translate
When is it too late to resuscitate? A new study in pigs challenges the definition of “brain dead”
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In a new paper published on 17 April in Nature, researchers describe an artificial perfusion system called BrainEx that can restore certain structural and functional properties in the brain of