Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between ...

It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau—a protein known to ...

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that lemborexant, a medication used to treat insomnia, can reduce brain damage linked to Alzheimer’s disease in a mouse model. The ...

This important study presents a new method for longitudinally tracking cells in two-photon imaging data that addresses the specific challenges of imaging neurons in the developing cortex. It provides ...

Neighborly help in the brain: Cerebral cortex networks rapidly reorganize to compensate for lost neurons by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan ...

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Fortunately, this outcome is unusual for either sex because the brain’s executive center—the prefrontal cortex—inhibits the amygdala’s fight response.