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A new study finds that seniors who tend to mirror other people’s feelings are more likely to show signs of being anxious or depressed themselves.

It’s common knowledge that our brains — and, specifically, our brain cells — store memories. But a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also perform a memory function, opening new pathways for understanding how me…

A new study has challenged the perception heavy social media use has a significant impact on mental health, finding little to no relationship between the two. In fact, not only does the research indicate the amount of time spent on social media has a n…

A new cell type provides a missing piece of the neural network regulating appetite.

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional map of the brain to date. The fMRI analysis shows how different brain networks light up when participants viewed short clips from…

Researchers have discovered a neural mechanism for memory integration that stretches across both time and personal experience.

Neuroscientists have discovered brain cells that form multiple coordinate systems to tell us ‘where we are’ in a sequence of behaviors. These cells can play out different sequences of actions, just like a music box can be configured to play different s…

Thanks to a ‘natural experiment’ involving 30,000 people, researchers were able to determine very precisely what an extra year of education does to the brain in the long term. To their surprise, they found no effect on brain structure and no protective…

A new study involving 8,500 children from across the United States has revealed that a form of air pollution, largely the product of agricultural emissions, is linked to poor learning and memory performance in 9- and 10-year-olds. The specific pollutan…

A research team has found that giving iron supplements to children living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in sub-Saharan Africa could be an important first step in optimizing brain development.