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New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

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Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

A new study suggests low doses of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, may protect memory and reduce brain ...

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A new study suggests that the long-term antidepressant effects of psychedelics may be driven by persistent changes in how ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens. A new study by researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory ...