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Hot on the heels of discovering a protective form of immune response to spinal cord injury, researchers have pinpointed the biological trigger for that response — a vital step toward being able to harness the body’s defenses to improve treatment for s…
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Scientists have shown an unprecedented degree of connectivity reorganization in newly-generated hippocampal neurons in response to experience, suggesting their direct contribution to the processing of complex information in the adult brain.
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A new study reveals that individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have significantly more difficulty with gist reasoning than traditional cognitive tests.
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Positive emotions linked to proteins that fight infection, diseaseTaking in such spine-tingling wonders as the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel ceiling or Schubert’s “Ave Maria” may give a boost to…
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Researchers from The University of Manchester’s National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness investigated whether suicides were related to the way mental…
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A well-known cell communication pathway called Notch has been linked by scientists to one of the most common — but overall still rare — brain tumors found in children.
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Building on their earlier work that suggested people who meditate have less age-related atrophy in the brain’s white matter, a new study found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain’s gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.
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A new study sheds light on the brain cells that function in establishing one’s location and direction. The findings contribute to our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying our abilities to successfully navigate our environment, which may be…
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“Atesi” — what sounds like a word from the Elven language of Lord of the Rings is actually a Vimmish word meaning “thought”. Scientists have used Vimmish, an artificial language specifically developed for scientific research, to study how people can b…
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For patients with brain cancer, radiation is a potentially life-saving treatment, but it can also cause considerable and even permanent injury to the brain. Now, through preclinical experiments conducted in rats, researchers have developed a method to …
