Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among ...

The brain encodes negative memories more vividly due to evolutionary survival needs. Emotional circuitry prioritizes threats ...

A new study by Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct ...

Destroyed connections between brain cells may be to blame. A colored scanning electron micrograph of microglial cells—the immune cells of the central nervous system—that play important roles ...

A new study from Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct ...

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites -- not a shared site -- to achieve different types of plasticity.

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine found blocking a brain-defense molecule in mice prevented memory loss and other ...

What the team saw was that solutions that came with an “aha!” moment were remembered much better by participants than those they had worked out more deliberately. The more strongly someone felt that ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

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