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Did the 12th century B.C.E. — a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text — coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a team of researchers whose new paper refutes a hypothesis…

By tracking feedback during tasks, the anterior cingulate cortex notices when a new step has become necessary and signals the motor cortex to adjust, a new neuroscience study shows.

Neuroscientists have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. The researchers show that information transfer in the neural circuits involved switche…

New research using genome editing technology has allowed scientists to create a model and assess a gene mutation associated with neuropsychiatric disorders in humans. The study has revealed how the mutation functions in the brain and affects anxiety an…

Although Aduhelm, a monoclonal antibody targeting amyloid beta (A?), recently became the first US FDA approved drug for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) based on its ability to decrease A? plaque burden in AD patients, its effect on cognitive improvement is st…

Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone — it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening to a book, reading or conducting a conversation. Contrary to speech recognition computers, our brains are constan…

Social isolation and loneliness are prevalent in the U.S., and they have harmful effects on heart and brain health. Older adults and people in socially vulnerable groups, such as individuals from disenfranchised racial or ethnic groups, people with dis…

Even moderate physical activity has a positive effect on the brain. Researchers deduce this from examinations of 2,550 participants of the Bonn ‘Rhineland Study’. According to the study’s findings, certain areas of the brain are larger in physically ac…

Researchers propose objective criteria to examine subjective experiences and reveal their neuronal basis.

Disease of the microscopic blood vessels that feed the white matter of our brain is associated with worse cognitive function and memory deficits in individuals with Alzheimer’s, scientists report.