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Researchers have identified in live human brains new radioactive ‘tracer’ molecules that bind to and ‘light up’ tau tangles, a protein associated with a number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias.

One of the many painful and challenging aspects of the US opioid crisis is that people abusing opioids often isolate themselves from family and friends, making it difficult for loved ones to help people on a path towards recovery.

New research finds that ‘hangxiety,’ the experience of anxiety during a hangover, is higher among shy, introverted people than it is in extroverted people.

What happens within the brain when it perceives a threatening signal, such as an aggressive voice? Researchers have studied brain activity during the processing of various emotional voices. They discovered that we notice a voice much faster when it is …

Researchers have discovered information about a gene that sets primates — great apes and humans — apart from other mammals, through the study of a rare developmental brain disorder.

In a new study explaining the cellular mechanisms behind cognitive impairment from chemotherapy, scientists have demonstrated that a widely used chemotherapy drug, methotrexate, causes a complex set of problems in three major cell types within the brai…

Babies recognize faces from profile view in the second half of the first year of life, new research shows.

Whenever we learn or save information, the so-called ionotropic glutamate receptors play a crucial role in the brain. A subgroup of glutamate receptors are kainate receptors. They had been traditionally known for aiding the regulation of neuronal netwo…

Researchers from the University of Waterloo found that even if people weren’t good at it, drawing, as a method to help retain new information, was better than re-writing notes, visualization exercises or passively looking at images.