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If selection reinforces a behavior, brain activities soon change as well.

A brain imaging study of veterans with Gulf War illness (GWI) and patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (sometimes called myalgic encephalomyelitis), has shown that the two illnesses produce distinctly different, abnormal patterns of brain activ…

Manipulating a novel mechanism that regulates ATXN1 levels reduced ATXN1 and improved some of the symptoms of neurodegenerative disease SCA1 in animal models.

Dream or REM sleep is distinguished by rapid eye movement and absence of muscle tone, but electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings are indistinguishable from those of an awake brain. Neuroscientists have now found an EEG signature of REM sleep, allowing s…

Researchers have demonstrated that placebos reduce brain markers of emotional distress even when people know they are taking one.

LSU Health New Orleans research has unlocked a key fundamental mechanism in the communication between brain cells when confronted with stroke and found DHA not only protected neuronal cells and promoted their survival, but also helped maintain their in…

Rhythms produced by the brain can reliably be used to predict how sensitive we are to pain, new research shows.

How do you keep orientation in a complex environment, like the city of Vienna? You can thank your brain’s ‘global positioning system’ (GPS), the hippocampus, for this sense of orientation. To further understand its functions, scientists have analyzed s…

Despite our broad understanding of the different brain regions activated during rapid-eye-movement sleep, little is known about what this activity serves for. Researchers have now discovered that the activation of neurons in the hypothalamus during REM…

New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device that imperceptibly stimulates the brain could significantly improve the wearer’s ability to learn the sounds of a new language. This device may have wide-ranging applications fo…