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A new study investigates how visual and auditory cues increase risk-taking behavior. The findings provide a much-needed insight into gambling addiction.

New research has revealed a brain region called the nucleus reuniens that is responsible for suppressing the fear response in rodents.

Scientists have combined genetic analyses, anatomical maps, and detailed studies of neuronal activity to reveal brain cells’ roles in controlling movement.

Neuroscientists have moved one step closer to understanding the complete list of cell types in the brain. In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, the researchers sorted cells from the cortex, the outermost shell and the cognitive center of…

A promising new therapy to stop Parkinson’s disease in its tracks has been developed by scientists who found that a small molecule, MCC950, stopped the development of Parkinson’s in several animal models. The team hope to commence human clinical trials…

Did you really see that pale face just now? What was that sound? This Halloween, test the limits of your brain with these easy spooky experiments.

Researchers have uncovered a link between motor neurons’ inability to repair oxidative genome damage in ALS, suggesting that DNA ligase-targeted therapies may prevent or slowdown disease progression. The defect found was with DNA ligase III, an importa…

Fear is a universal human experience. In this Spotlight, we ask why fear evolved, what happens in the body, and why some people enjoy it.

A 10-year study of 12,000 diverse older adults finds that loneliness, independently of social isolation, is tied to a 40 percent higher risk of dementia.

People who regularly take cocaine cut with the animal anti-worming agent levamisole demonstrate impaired cognitive performance and a thinned prefrontal cortex. These findings from two recent studies indicate that levamisole could have a toxic effect on…