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Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to ...

Scientists exploring how the brain responds to stress discovered molecular changes that can influence behavior long after an ...

Recent research from Georgetown University suggests that a subtle shift in a single brain protein—KCC2—can send your dopamine ...

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Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...