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Neuroscientists show the visual number form area in the brain.

Four factors medical complications at birth, maternal education, early motor assessments, and early cognitive assessments help predict later cognitive function and motor performance for children born early and at a very low birth weight, finds a new study by New York University's (NYU's) Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Rare find in two Turkish children leads to discovery about autophagy.

By comparing birth records over a period of nine years, Drexel University researchers have found that the children of mothers who took a certain asthma medication during pregnancy faced an elevated risk of being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Up to now Alzheimer's disease has not been recognized as transmissible. Now researchers at the University of Zurich and the Medical University Vienna demonstrated Alzheimer-type pathology in brains of recipients of dura mater grafts who died later from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

A wide range of compounds is on the market to ameliorate depressive symptoms, however their efficiency is achieved only after long periods of treatment and not in 100% of patients. Now, Inserm researchers have identified early cellular changes in the brain for the emergence of depressive symptoms, and a novel promising drug target.

Solving the structure of ‘flipping’ cellular machinery points to possible Alzheimer’s and cancer therapies.

The brains of children who are obese function differently from those of children of healthy weight, and exhibit an "imbalance" between food-seeking and food-avoiding behaviors, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found.

Smart songbird's reference genome is milestone for research.

A new study reveals that prairie voles console loved ones who are feeling stressed—and it appears that the infamous "love hormone," oxytocin, is the underlying mechanism.