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The ability to recognize and respond to emotionally-charged situations is essential to a species’ evolutionary success. A new study advances our understanding of how the brain responds to emotionally charged objects and scenes.

You look up into the clear blue sky and see something you can’t quite identify. Is it a balloon? A plane? A UFO? You’re curious, right? A research team has for the first time witnessed what is happening in the human brain when feelings of curiosity lik…

Research found the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid play a key role in maintaining a pool of newly born neurons to repair the adult brain after injury.

By prohibiting the Activin A protein from functioning, researchers were able to halt the development of dyskinesia symptoms and effectively erase the brain’s ‘bad memory’ response to L-DOPA treatments.

The largest animals do not have proportionally bigger brains — with humans bucking this trend — a new study has revealed.

New research details the connection between the neurological symptoms associated with aura and the migraine that follows. The study also identifies new proteins that could be responsible for headaches and may serve as foundation for new migraine drugs.

A recent study found that the way cerebellar neurons communicate with other brain regions is different in various movement disorders.

A key mechanism which detects when the brain needs an additional energy boost to support its activity has been identified in a study in mice and cells led by UCL scientists.

Ever wondered why you performed worse than expected in that final university exam that you sat in a cavernous gymnasium or massive hall, despite countless hours, days and weeks of study? Now you have a genuine reason — high ceilings.

Scientists have identified a gene which, when missing or impaired, can cause obesity, behavioural problems and, in mothers, postnatal depression. The discovery, reported today in Cell, may have wider implications for the treatment of postnatal depressi…