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A unified theory of the mind could be key to understanding brain function and neurological disease

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.

This Nutrient May Be the Key to Better Brain Function—And Most Women Are Deficient in It

Here’s how to get more of it.
Medical Xpress

Key to human intelligence lies in how brain networks work together, neuroimaging study suggests

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...
Iowa Public Radio

This complex brain network may explain many of Parkinson's stranger symptoms

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...
Medical Xpress

Key brain differences can explain why Ritalin helps improve focus in some more than others

Nearly 16 million American adults have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but evidence suggests that more than 30% of them don't respond well to stimulant medications ...
WUNC

A new study helps explain how the brain creates mental images

OK, if I say the word puppy, you probably get a mental picture of something cute and cuddly with ears and a wiggly tail. And that's because most brains can generate an internal image without any input ...

Pregnancy reshapes the brain. But each pregnancy may do it differently.

New research suggests pregnancy doesn’t impair the brain—it reshapes it, refining memory, attention, and emotional awareness ...
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Scientists identify two brain cell types that function abnormally in depression

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...
Frontiers

NeuroAI and the brain: Integrating brain-inspired computational models and large-scale AI architectures with computational theories of neural function

The rapid ascent of large-scale artificial intelligence has provided neuroscience with a new set of powerful tools for modeling complex cognitive functions.