This Brain Molecule Decides Which Memories Are Happy—or Terrible
Further evidence for this bias comes from the mice's reactions when they first entered the learning environment. Before they ...
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Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats
tiny spots Lab-grown human brain tissue is just blobs, each a few millimeters in diameter. Researchers at Stanford University ...
Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself? Neuroscientists Unravel the Mystery
In the first phase of the new study, each subject spent their time in front of a GoPro and ...
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
ten years Many of the most impressive AI systems today are taught using massive amounts of labeled data. For ...
The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor
Sophie Papp and Her family held a ceremony for the recently departed. Whenever a relative dies, she and her ...
The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action
The common good makes sense: people may reasonably feel more empowered to affect their own health than the health ...
The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses
Because leptin is released by fat cells, scientists think its presence in the blood is likely to signal to ...
How ‘The Dress’ Sparked a Neuroscience Breakthrough
Back in 2015, Before Brexit, before Trump, before Macedonian internet trolls, before QAnon and Covid conspiracy theories, before fake ...
Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them
for the first In Sohee Park's decades of schizophrenia research, she rarely stopped to think about what her subjects' ...
A New Kind of Genome Editing Is Here to Fine-Tune DNA
"We didn't see any signs that their alcohol consumption would return to baseline levels, so we think this epigenetic ...
