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A new cell type provides a missing piece of the neural network regulating appetite.

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional map of the brain to date. The fMRI analysis shows how different brain networks light up when participants viewed short clips from…

Researchers have discovered a neural mechanism for memory integration that stretches across both time and personal experience.

Neuroscientists have discovered brain cells that form multiple coordinate systems to tell us ‘where we are’ in a sequence of behaviors. These cells can play out different sequences of actions, just like a music box can be configured to play different s…

Thanks to a ‘natural experiment’ involving 30,000 people, researchers were able to determine very precisely what an extra year of education does to the brain in the long term. To their surprise, they found no effect on brain structure and no protective…

A new study involving 8,500 children from across the United States has revealed that a form of air pollution, largely the product of agricultural emissions, is linked to poor learning and memory performance in 9- and 10-year-olds. The specific pollutan…

A research team has found that giving iron supplements to children living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in sub-Saharan Africa could be an important first step in optimizing brain development.

Researchers have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a ‘meta-learning’ function, overseeing and regulating physical movements. Once believed to be limited to movement planning, this region has now been shown, through computational modelin…

Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers have found that babies given ACS had notably smaller volumes of two key brain regions, the bilateral amygdalae and caudate nuclei, which…

Your brain not only processes what you see but continuously makes predictions based on your experiences. This process may be less fine-tuned in people with autism, research suggests.