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MedUni Vienna is conducting research into the connections between brain structure and function in humans and animals

How do we retain vivid memories of long-ago events? New research from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine may provide the answer.

Scientists found in a mouse study that infants’ exposure to alcohol through breastmilk can have long-lasting effects on their development.

Happiness can’t be bought, but nor does it depend mostly on one’s mindset, as many happiness surveys would suggest.

While we sleep, blood flow to the brain increases to remove waste metabolites, and the mechanism behind how this happens has recently been revealed.

Conditioning that once worked with Pavlov’s dog does also work with an artificially induced change in nerve cell activity.

A gene in the brain driving anxiety symptoms has been identified by an international team of scientists. Critically, modification of the gene is shown to reduce anxiety levels, offering an exciting novel drug target for anxiety disorders.

Problems with the brain’s ability to ‘prune’ itself of unnecessary connections may underlie a wide range of mental health disorders that begin during adolescence.

People with dementia have protein build-up in astrocytes that may trigger abnormal antiviral activity and memory loss.

Researchers have developed a self-assembling gel that can reach areas of the brain that surgery might miss and that drugs struggle to reach to kill lingering cancer cells.