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The image displays four views of a person's brain, highlighting the boundaries between different functional brain networks, each represented by different colored lines, as mapped using functional MRI. This map is overlaid on a salience network connectivity heat map, where warmer colors indicate stronger connectivity within the salience network. Researchers discovered that a larger salience network may be associated with an increased risk of depression. Credit: Lynch/Liston Labs.

Large-Scale Study Uncovers Hundreds of Genetic Variants Linked to Brain Structure

Categories Brain & Behavior
This is the graphical abstract for the iScience paper "Is political ideology correlated with brain structure? A preregistered replication."

Brain Structure Linked to Political Views, but Connection Weaker Than Previously Thought

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Climbing fibres, in the form of ivy, wrap around the branches of a Purkinje cell-shaped tree, within the vibrant courtyard of a school populated by mice. The illustration captures the essential role of climbing fibres as teaching signals for associative cerebellar learning.

“Zombie neurons” shed light on how the brain learns

Categories Brain & Behavior
brain illustration

Largest genetic study of brain structure identifies how the brain is organised

Categories Brain & Behavior
A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals that a connection between the body and mind is built into the structure of the brain. The study shows that parts of the brain area that controls movement are plugged into networks involved in thinking and planning, and in control of involuntary bodily functions such as blood pressure and heart rate.

Mind-body connection is built into brain, study suggests

Categories Brain & Behavior
Old looking teen

Pandemic stress physically aged teens’ brains

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

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