Cocaine Abstinence Changes Gene Expression in the Brain
Prolonged cocaine use affects the expression of genes and proteins in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a region of the brain involved in many reward-related...
Paper or Audio? It’s All the Same to your Brain. End of Story
The brain processes words in a similar manner, whether you are reading a book or listening to an audiobook. Researchers from the University of...
A Repressor Protein Produces a Neuron
Neurons come into being when their progenitor cells ignore proliferative signals during brain development. A new study published today in Neuron journal describes, for...
How Reading Books Changes Your Body
Reading stories increases brain connectivity
Most people have read at least one story that changed their way of thinking. Researchers at Emory University have found...
Re-Learning Math with the Human Calculator
The way you learnt math was the worst method possible…?!
From the Producers of Beer: Cannabinoids in the Lab
Researchers engineered S. cerevisiae, the yeast used for brewing beer, and synthesized the main cannabinoids -THC and CBD- of the plant Cannabis sativa.
How Memory Research Can Help You Learn a New Language
Tell me if this sounds familiar: you just turned off the light, your head is on the pillow, your eyes are closed, and yet,...
Dementia Is Not Fated; Fight It Away
The wider the brain's neuronal circuits, the lower the risk of dementia in old age.
The Amazing Brains of Musicians
The brain of a musician is incredibly plastic; it can rearrange its old networks and form new ones. But how can we study musical training in real life conditions?
Alien Limbs: Living in a Struggle Between Body and Mind
How literature can help people with extreme body disorders.