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Music therapy: It's all in the beat
Credit: CC0 Public DomainDecades after the "Mozart effect" gripped the world, music has established a solid footing in medical research thanks to musi...
Can illness make you less human?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain"Darwin propagated the idea that humans are like other animals fighting for survival, but distinguished supposedly by our int...
A focused approach to imaging neural activity in the brain
Using a new calcium indicator that accumulates in the cell bodies of neurons (boxes at right), MIT neuroscientists are able to more accurately image n...
Glycolysis involved in immunosuppression by polyphenol
Proposed mechanism for the suppression of TNF-α production and glycolysis by PCB2DG through inhibition of mTOR/HIF-1 pathway in CD4 T cells. Credit: ...
Like a treasure map, brain region emphasizes reward location
Credit: CC0 Public DomainWe are free to wander but usually when we go somewhere it's for a reason. In a new study, researchers at The Picower Institut...
Scientists implant mice brains with synthetic odors to study smell
Washington (AFP) - Scientists in the United States have for the first time ever created an electrical signature perceived as an odor in the brains of ...
How does our brain trigger different sighs? New findings could provide answers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainOne group of neurons controls various types of sighing, but they receive their instructions from different areas of t...
Stormy weather puts damper on SpaceX's 1st astronaut launch
Photo: David J. Phillip, APThe SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, sits on Launch Pad 39-A, Monday, May 25, 2020, a...