Nostalgic Tunes Trigger Stronger Urge to Dance Than Familiar Hits
Summary: A new study reveals that nostalgia plays a powerful role in making us want to dance, even…
AI Model Maps Brain Dynamics to Boost Mental Health Diagnosis
Summary: A new adaptive brain modeling framework offers fresh hope for objective diagnosis of neuropsychiatric disorders, which currently…
Infant Brain Wiring Predicts Emotional Growth Months Before It Shows
Summary: The brain’s white matter microstructure at just three months of age can predict how an infant’s emotions…
Dormant Stem Cells May Hold Key to Restoring Sense of Smell
Summary: Researchers have created a 3D mouse organoid model to study how neurons in the nose regenerate, revealing…
Fruit fly model sheds light on genetic roots of cocaine addiction
In a new JNeurosci paper, Adrian Rothenfluh and colleagues from the University of Utah developed a fruit fly…
Shared Genetic Signatures Found Across Psychiatric Disorders
Summary: Researchers have uncovered shared biological mechanisms across major psychiatric disorders by analyzing postmortem brain samples from the…
Night Owls More Impulsive Than Morning Larks
Summary: A new study reveals that adolescents who identify as “night owls” tend to be more impulsive than…
Inhibitory Neurons May Hold the Key to Spatial Learning and Memory
Summary: A new study explores how the brain quickly learns and remembers important locations by focusing not on…
New genetically modified fruit fly model sheds light on cocaine addiction
For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The…
How Cocaine Hijacks the Brain
Summary: In a groundbreaking study, researchers have engineered fruit flies that voluntarily consume cocaine, creating the first fly…