Scrolling Past Skinny: How Repeated Exposure to Thin Bodies Rewires Body Size Perception for Weeks
New research shows that just one week of daily exposure to distorted body images can shift what young women perceive ...
Tag: Neuroscience
Protein Therapy Aims to Restore Brain Function in Fragile X Syndrome
A UC Riverside team funded by FRAXA will test engineered proteins designed to cross the blood-brain barrier and normalize brain ...
How Nerve Cells Measure Their Wires: Piezo1 Sets Myelin Length to Match Axon Size
A new PLOS Biology study shows that the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 allows oligodendrocytes to sense axon diameter and locally ...
Mysterious Brain Structure Revealed as a Hub for Tracking Uncertainty and Surprise
Single-neuron recordings in epilepsy patients show that the enigmatic human claustrum encodes uncertainty and prediction errors during aversive learning, revealing ...
Genetic Switch That Gave Butterflies Extra Color Vision Revealed
UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how the ...
Bridging the Lab and the Clinic: Why Addiction Science Needs Translational Research
A new commentary in the Journal of Translational Medicine argues that refined animal models and emerging tools like rodent fMRI ...
Lithium’s quantum spin may shape its effects in the brain, study suggests
University of Surrey researchers used quantum simulations to show that the different nuclear spins of lithium-6 and lithium-7 could alter ...
Emmy Noether Award Brings Insect Brain Evolution Researcher to Mainz
Evolutionary neurobiologist Max Farnworth has joined Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from Bristol to lead a DFG-funded Emmy Noether group investigating ...
How Ultraprocessed Foods Hijack Metabolism and the Brain
A randomized, controlled, crossover study in Nature Metabolism shows that ultraprocessed foods produce distinct acute metabolic responses that are correlated ...
Central Amygdala’s Role in Mouse Stress Relief Gender Gaps
In a groundbreaking study published in “Biology of Sex Differences,” researchers are delving into a striking area of neuroscience that ...
Central Amygdala’s Role in Stress Relief Sex Differences
In a groundbreaking investigation in the field of neuroscience, researchers have unveiled critical insights regarding the role of the central ...
How the brain keeps track of similar but distinct memories.
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have helped explain how the brain keeps track of the incredibly rich ...
