By Anika Gupta Los Angeles’ Children’s Hospital reported that one in eight teens have reported using opioids recreationally. Additionally, 50% of drug use disorders begin in one’s adolescence, ...

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A wave of recent neuroscience research has identified specific molecular and cellular mechanisms through which alcohol disrupts signaling between brain cells, offering a sharper picture of how ...

The neuropeptide oxytocin is a special messenger substance that nerve cells use to communicate with each other. It is acting as both a neurotransmitter and a hormone and is best known for promoting ...

For more than a century, scientists have divided the brain into regions based on how brain tissue looks under a microscope. The maps have shaped how researchers study thinking, decision-making, and ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

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An image from the research shows axons from neurons in the ACA (red) and ORB (green) innervating the visual cortex, targeting discrete layers. Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT ...

ABSTRACT: Background: To delay the onset of dementia with age, it is important for healthy adults to take preventive measures before cognitive decline occurs. Cognitive function decline is often ...