New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

Researchers uncovered how estrogen subtly reshapes learning by strengthening dopamine reward signals in the brain. Rats ...

Experiments reveal how estrogen enhances dopamine and cognitive function. Hormones are known to have powerful effects on the ...

When education is framed primarily as optimizing neural circuitry, we risk losing sight of the full complexity of human ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

“We show that when writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns are far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard,” writes Audrey van der Meer, a brain researcher at the Norwegian University ...

Since no one ever does anything worthwhile on their own, who you know is important. But what you know — and what you do with what you know — is crucial. Learning, memory, and cognitive skills are a ...

A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...

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