NeuroBriefs - Neuroscience Research News
Behavioral Neuroscience (30 articles)
- A New MRI Technique Watches Brain Cells Develop in Living Babies
- Chronic Stress Breaks the Brain's Norepinephrine Control System
- Can ChatGPT-Style AI Crack the Brain? The Answer Is Complicated
- Different Species Learn Eyeblink Conditioning Differently (Maybe Learning Isn't So Conserved)
- Attention, Memory, and Consciousness Are More Intertwined Than We Thought
- Brain Scans Predicting Kids' Behavior Sounds Great, But Here's Why It's Harder Than You Think
- Astrocytes Have a Secret Fuel Source (And It Changes How They React to Inflammation)
- A Stress Hormone in the Brain Keeps Repair Cells from Growing Up Too Fast
- "Patchy" Neurons in the Striatum Control How Vigorously You Move Based on Context
- Your Brain Has Two Separate Committees for "Will This Kill Me?" and "Will This Be Awesome?"
- Your Nervous System Has Been Helping Tumors Hide From Your Immune System This Whole Time
- Your Busy Schedule Might Be a Dementia Risk Factor
- Your Hippocampus Runs a Dual-Purpose Clock-and-Memory System
- Zebrafish Can Regrow Their Spinal Cords Because Their Fibroblasts Control Inflammation Just Right
- Your Brain Has a Beautiful Frequency Map for Hearing, But It Falls Apart When Signals Go Backward
- Male and Female Mice Have Different Musical Tastes (And It Rewires Their Brains Differently)
- Your Brain Makes New Cells, and They Use Blood Flow and Hunger Hormones as GPS
- You Can Measure Consciousness Without Zapping Anyone's Brain
- Your Prefrontal Cortex Isn't Just Bigger, It's Playing a Completely Different Game
- What You Saw Before Changes What You See Now (At Every Timescale)
- Those "What Kind of Eater Are You?" Questionnaires Might Be Full of It
- The Brain Science of Spiritual Experiences (A Complex Systems View)
- What's the Minimum Brain Required for Consciousness? (Scientists Are Still Fighting About It)
- What Are Memories Made Of? A Representational Perspective
- Your Brain Has Been Sorting the World Into "Things" and "Stuff" Your Whole Life, and You Never Even Noticed
- When "Hangry" Gets Really Dark: Hungry Mice Attack Babies (But Only When the Hormones Line Up)
- Special Smell-Processing Units Have Their Own Unique Wiring Rules
- Microplastics and Nanoplastics Damage Fish Brains (A Meta-Analysis)
- Scientists Made Mice Glow (Slightly) to Get Better Movement Tracking
- Neuroscientists Are Putting Animals Back in Nature (Sort of) - The Foraging Framework