A family lights candles at a vigil held in Moncton, N.B., on January 30, 2017, for the victims of the Quebec City mosque shooting.
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How can scientific literature on interpersonal trauma help us better understand the impact of tragedy, especially on children who are still developing?
Sung Han, University of California, San Diego and Shijia Liu, University of California, San Diego
Opioids can cause death by slowing breathing to dangerously low levels, or stopping it altogether. Examining one area of the brain may eventually lead to safer painkillers.
Don Arnold, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Understanding where and how memories are formed could lead to more ways to treat conditions like PTSD and addiction.
Brain folding typically begins at the end of the.
second trimester of pregnancy and continues after birth.
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Jeanne Paz, University of California, San Francisco
The molecule C1q has both protective and detrimental effects after traumatic brain injury. Blocking it after injury in mice restored normal brain rhythms during sleep and prevented epileptic spikes.
Research reveals links between the irritability, explosive rage and unstable moods that have grown more common in recent years, and a lack of micronutrients that are important for brain function.
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Ultra-processed foods high in sugar, fat and empty carbs are bad for the mind as well as the body. Lack of micronutrients affects brain function and influences mood and mental health symptoms.
Human language is governed by a grammatical system – a sentence can be grammatical without meaning.
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High levels of uncertainty can make us obsessive compulsive, causing physical changes in the brain.
Research groups supported by the U.S. BRAIN Initiative recently released the most comprehensive map of cell types in the motor cortex of humans, monkeys and mice.
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Scientists have been mapping the brain for centuries. New visualization tools bring them one step closer to understanding where thoughts come from and new ways to treat neurological disorders.
Some people do inherit traits which promote dance ability - but with hard work almost anyone can learn to dance well due to the plasticity of the brain
You can spot a happy dad on his smile – or on a brain scan.
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Our research suggests the multiplication of protein aggregates in individual regions of the brain, rather than their spread between regions, is key to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation
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