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Insulin in the brain may help regulate the hunger sensation and improve functional connectivity in certain cognitive brain regions (default-mode network, DMN *) as well as in the hippocampus and hypothalamus.

A study found that older adults who had sex once per week – as opposed to once per month or never – did better overall on certain tests of mental ability.

Photodynamic therapy is often used to treat brain tumors because of its specificity — it can target very small regions containing cancerous cells while sparing the normal cells around it from damage. It works by injecting a drug called a photosensiti…

Multitasking is a difficult but highly desirable ability. New research examines a technique that might help us achieve it: reactivating the learned memory.

New research provides the first evidence that cortical targets could represent a novel therapeutic site for improving motor function in humans paralyzed by spinal cord injury.

Changes in lattice-like structures in the brain known as perineuronal nets are necessary to ‘capture’ an auditory fear association and ‘haul’ it in as a longer-term memory, an adult mouse model reveals.

A new study showed how a male pheromone in mice enhances sexual behaviors in females — and how it may enhance a different behavior, aggression, in males — by identifying distinct neural circuits and neurons that generate a particular behavioral respo…

Considering the brain’s network of activity, rather than just individual regions, could help us understand why some brain injuries are much worse than others.

Larvae of a marine ragworm Platynereis dumerilii have been studied as a zooplankton model, and possess photoreceptor cells in the brain to regulate circadian swimming behavior. This study revealed that a photoreceptive protein in the brain photorecepto…