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A new study has found that neuronal population dynamics in the motor cortex are very different during reaching and grasping behavior, challenging a popular theory that indicated intrinsic, dynamic patterns control motor behaviors.

A combination of innate differences and diet-induced changes to the reward system may predispose some mice to overeat, according to research recently published in JNeurosci.

Deep within the brain, a small almond-shaped region called the amygdala plays a vital role in how we exhibit emotion, behavior and motivation; it’s also strongly implicated in alcohol abuse. Now, for the first time, a team has identified important chan…

A new national survey, looking at how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted young U.S. adults’ loneliness, reveals ‘significant depressive symptoms’ in 80 percent of participants.

International research has led to the discovery of a new mechanism that controls the size of our brains. The finding, which is based on studies on a rare congenital brain disease, delivers an important piece of data in our knowledge about how the human…

New research into how a common parasite infection alters human behavior could help development of treatments for schizophrenia and other neurological disorders. T. gondii currently infects 2.5 billion people worldwide and causes the disease Toxoplasmos…

Researchers have demonstrated that the severity of ‘reactive astrocytes’ is a key indicator for the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

Melatonin is used as a dietary supplement to promote sleep and get over jet lag, but nobody really understands how it works in the brain. Now, researchers show that melatonin helps worms sleep, too, and they suspect they’ve identified what it does in us.

A new study identifies a region of the thalamus as a key source of signals encoding past experiences in the neocortex.

The drug has not yet made it to human trials for multiple sclerosis, but scientists are urging their colleagues to move cautiously.