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Play it again: How the brain recognizes familiar music

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I’m ok, you’re not: Supramarginal gyrus plays key empathy role

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Ballet dancers’ brains adapt to stop them getting in a spin

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Finally mapped: The brain region that distinguishes bits from bounty

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Novel ‘top-down’ mechanism repatterns developing brain regions

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Study Advances New Theory of How the Brain Is Wired

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3D map of blood vessels in cerebral cortex holds suprises

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Researchers have found how brain cells control their movement to form the cerebral cortex

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A study led by Academy Research Fellow Eleanor Coffey identifies new players that put the brakes on. They show in mice that lack the star player “JNK1”, that newborn neurons spend less time in the multipolar stage, which is when the cells prepare fo…

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Carnegie Mellon researchers identify ‘Facebook neurons’

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PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that within the brain’s neocortex lies a subnetwork of highly active neurons that behave much like people in social networks. Like Facebook, these neuronal networks have a small pop…

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Smoking may thin the brain

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Philadelphia, PA, 2 December 2010 – Many brain imaging studies have reported that tobacco smoking is associated with large-scale and wide-spread structural brain abnormalities.
The cerebral cortex is a specific area of the brain responsible for m…

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New ways to detect and treat Alzheimer’s disease

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SAN DIEGO — New studies identify brain changes in people with Alzheimer’s disease. The results give researchers a greater understanding of the disease and may help at-risk individuals by improving early detection. New animal research also shows a…

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The more someone smokes, the smaller the number of gray cells

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Is there a relation between the structure of specific regions of the brain and nicotine dependence? This is the question researchers of the Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin and of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Berlin have b…

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