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New research into sports practice and performance suggests that a combination of other factors may affect performance more than practice.

In a cooperation task, researchers identified differences in the brain activity of men and women – even though they performed equally as well.

Scientists have shown how the brain anticipates all of the new situations that it may encounter in a lifetime by creating a special kind of neural network that is ‘pre-adapted’ to face any eventuality.

Researchers have developed a novel robot microscope system that automatically tracks a freely moving small animal and manipulates its brain activity with ‘projection mapping.’

Scientists have discovered a unique pattern of scarring in the brains of deceased service members who were exposed to blast injury that differs from those exposed to other types of head injury.

A new study found that blue wavelength light exposure led to subsequent increases in brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) when participants were engaging in a cognitive task after …

New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure, and will improve attempts to create artificial intelligence. The study demonstrates this by showing that the evol…

Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite, infects a third of the world’s population. Working on mice, biomedical scientists report that Toxoplasma infection leads to a disruption of neurotransmitters in the brain and postulates that it triggers neurolog…

Interactions between the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex enable humans to plan and navigate their route from one location to another, a new study reveals.

Researchers have developed an experimental laboratory test that accurately clocks the ‘speed’ of human brain tumor cell movement along a small glass ‘track.’ The assay, so far tested on the cells of 14 glioblastoma patients, has the potential, they say…