Scientists investigated how social relationship strength and oxytocin receptor expression could underlie individual ...

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Why are some people more helpful than others? In a new JNeurosci paper, Inbal Bartal, from Tel Aviv University, and ...

If you’ve walked on Prince Street or strolled down Fifth Avenue recently, you may have come across a giant inflatable rat.

Scientists have recreated in a laboratory the sensory pathway that transmits feelings of pain to the human brain, in a breakthrough that could lead to better treatments. A team at Stanford ...

Threat actors are using popular messaging, coding and video sharing platforms such as Telegram, GitHub and YouTube to spread new strain of RAT (Remote Access Trojan) dubbed Neptune ...

Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the MICrONS project. (Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain so far, by mapping cells in 1 cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain tissue 1. In a landmark achievement ...

Not long after Teresa Purzner joined Kingston Health Sciences Centre as a neurosurgeon in 2021, she took a good, hard look at the hospital’s 19-step process for treating brain tumours.

Diabetes is known to cause many medical issues, from heart disease to vision problems — and now a new study suggests it could also impact memory and other cognitive functions. After observing ...

Want to reduce your risk of dementia? Consider getting the shingles vaccine. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that a shingles vaccine reduces the risk of dementia. Researchers ...

UPDATE (April 11, 4:00 p.m.): The family of Victor Perez, the teen shot by Pocatello Police last weekend, told the Idaho State Journal he was declared brain dead Friday afternoon. The family is ...