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Researchers have identified the neural mechanisms in the brain that regulate both positive and negative impressions of a social encounter, as well as how an imbalance between the two could lead to common neuropsychiatric disorders.

A new 3D ‘atlas’ of the mouse brain promises to sharpen scientists’ ability to measure brain changes and share findings across studies of diseases like Alzheimer’s. The mouse brain atlas combines microscopic detail from multiple imaging techniques into…

People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people.

A new study may offer reassuring news for parents whose children have a history of concussion, but want to get back to playing sports. Researchers spent more than a decade scouting fields, rinks and courts across the Greater Toronto Area for participan…

Depression in young teens could be easier to treat than in adulthood due to the symptoms being more flexible and not yet ingrained, a study shows.

A new study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.

New research shows non-invasive sound wave therapy can directly target deep brain regions, significantly reducing depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms.

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

A new study provides new evidence that sensory stimulation of a gamma-frequency brain rhythm may promote broad-based restorative neurological health response.

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the brain appears to play a major role by over-activating th…