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Cells associated with inflammation and blood clotting accumulate in the brain blood vessels of children affected by a potentially fatal form of malaria called cerebral malaria, potentially contributing to the disease process, an international team of r…

For adults, memories tend to fade with time. But a new study has shown that there are circumstances under which the opposite is true for small children: they can remember a piece of information…

Individuals make more conservative choices when the decisions they make affect other people, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Dallas.Dr.

Neuroscientists have found a novel connection between the size of the choroid plexus in the brain and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), an unexpected finding, they say.

Researchers have shown that lower levels of conflict-related brain activity are associated with a higher risk for later psychosis. Their study offers evidence that conflict-related brain activation represents an adaptive process that is diminished in i…

Prion diseases — incurable, ultimately fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders of mammals — are believed to develop undetected in the brain over several years from infectious prion protein. In a new study, NIH scientists report they can dete…

Robots are increasingly being considered for use in highly tense civilian encounters to minimize person-to-person contact and danger to peacekeeping personnel.

For decades, experts have been studying potential links between childhood epilepsy and various behavioral and psychiatric conditions and some have hypothesized that that they are part of a larger…

Mutualism, when two species both benefit from their relationship with each other, is important for the survival of many organisms.

Our long-term memory is consolidated when we sleep. Short-term memory traces in the hippocampus, an area deep in the brain, are then relocated to more outer parts of the brain. An international team of neuroscientists now shows how a three-step brain o…