Category: Methods and Models
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What does tickling rats teach us about human behavior?
Though it sounds like the stuff of a whimsical Brothers Grimm tale, new experiments bring German researchers closer to understanding the biological mechanisms of playful behavior in mammals.
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New study suggests neural representation of other’s emotions converges during adolescence
The way we interpret the emotions of others may become more uniform as we mature.
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New sequencing technology measures gene expression in individual synapses
This new approach may grant researchers greater insight into cellular changes associated with various neurological conditions.
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Does your brain really stop developing at 25?
In the past several years, there has been broad media coverage of a push to redefine the end of adolescence as 24 years […]
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Sleeping brain may recognize familiar voices
A team of researchers from Austria and Switzerland have produced evidence suggesting that the brain can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar voices during […]
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Researchers find link between heightened anxiety-like behavior and increased alcohol intake in a rat model of social stress
A team of neuroscientists from Linköping University in Sweden published a study on Tuesday in Addiction Biology examining how social stress impacts the […]