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Pediatric researchers have harnessed an analytical tool used to predict the weather to evaluate the effectiveness of therapies to reduce brain injury in newborns who suffer oxygen deprivation during birth.

Walking between busy urban environments and green spaces triggers changes in levels of excitement, engagement and frustration in the brain, a study of older people has found.

Many people experience symptoms of burnout that include exhaustion, cynicism and reduced professional efficacy and often also difficulties in concentration and memory. The results of a new study reveal that the participants experiencing burnout symptom…

A new study shows that young people experiencing first episode psychosis have a much higher death rate than previously thought.

There is a link between self-harm and the risk of violent criminality, according to a Swedish registry study carried out by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and published in the scientific…

Neurons derived from two different types of precursor cells that later develop into neurons in the medial amygdala — one of the interconnected structures in the brain involved in emotion, motivation and memory — help to program innate reproductive an…

A surgical procedure called deep brain stimulation that sends electrical impulses to a specific area of the brain reduces the ‘tics,’ or involuntary movements and vocal outbursts, experienced by young adults with severe cases of Tourette syndrome.

In order to adapt to changes in the environment, the brain produces new nerve cells even at adult age. These young neurons are crucial for memory formation and learning. Scientists have now discovered that a small peptide plays the role of a mediator i…

Biomedical engineers have developed a way to deliver drugs to specific types of neurons in the brain, providing an unprecedented ability to study neurological diseases while promising a more targeted way to treat them.

Neurons in the prefrontal cortex “teach” neurons in the hippocampus to “learn” rules that distinguish memory-based predictions in otherwise identical situations, suggesting that learning in the present helps guide learning in the future, accord…