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Heart illustration

Scientists Map the Heart’s Hidden ‘Little Brain’ in Unprecedented Detail

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
Brain illustration

Brain’s Gas and Brake Pedals: How Dopamine and Serotonin Dance Together to Shape Learning

Categories Brain & Behavior
Eating your feelings? The link between job stress, junk food and sleep

Poor quality diet makes our brains sad

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
In a C. elegans worm the neuron HSN has a critical role in directing several coordinated behaviors. This image labels HSN in green, showing its extension all the way to the worm's head (labeled in red).

Single neuron can coordinate many aspects of behavior

Categories Brain & Behavior
Neurons. Pixabay

New kind of brain cell rocks neuroscience

Categories Brain & Behavior
Although smoking can provide an immediate feeling of calm and relaxation, the habit has serious long-term consequences - also in the brain. New figures from Aarhus University suggest that smoking significantly increases the risk of severe mental disorders.

Smoking significantly increases the risk of depression

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
This microscope image of the brain region called the hippocampus shows the protein targeted by cannabis-derived CBD, GPR55 (red), and brain cells (blue) that send their extensions out to form the layers seen in the image. The interconnected nature of the hippocampus makes it a major site of for the initiation and spread of seizures.

Study reveals how CBD counters epileptic seizures

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
a rat

Sugar is processed differently in the brains of obesity-prone vs. obesity-resistant rats

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

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