Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds. Emmanouela Kosteletou-Kassotaki and colleagues, from the University of ...

The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...

In a groundbreaking study, a New York University Langone research team believes they have honed in on the brain pathways of a genetically determined repetitive motor behavior that is linked to autism.

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A University of Iowa researcher has won more than $500,000 in grants to merge machine learning with a technique called ...

Research has revealed that the brain uses entirely different neural pathways for “social laughter”—laughter used to respond ...

The researchers found a pathway that connects the brain's stress centers to the region responsible for habits and decision‑making. The stress centers include two small regions deep in the brain called ...

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Glioblastoma is one of the most common and aggressive brain tumors within adult cancer patients. The cancer cells develop from star-shaped cells known as a | Immunology ...