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A new study has indicated that babies as young as seven months old are able to distinguish between symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns.

According to research, disruption of circadian clocks (which keep the body and its cells entrained to the 24-hour day-night cycle) plays a critical role in weight gain.

According to a study, almost 90% of people living with opioid use disorder are not receiving medications proven to reduce opioid overdoses by more than 50%.

Researchers have developed a flexible, stretchable computing chip that processes information by mimicking the human brain.

A popular hypothesis that the human brain shrunk around 3,000 years ago during the transition to modern societies has been called into question in a recent review of the data used to construct the hypothesis.

Scientists have found the first valid indications of neuroanatomical patterns in the brains of people with schizophrenia that resemble the signature of patients with frontotemporal dementia.

Researchers have developed a novel drug called αAβ-Gas6 which efficiently eliminates amyloid beta – which causes Alzheimer's disease – while avoiding inflammatory side effects associated with conventional antibody treatments.

Scientists have used gene-editing to study the link between the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 gene and anxiety.

The reduced firing of some neurons in the brain is a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease and a new study details how microglia contribute to the reduction of neural activity.

Recent research has shown that the brain's ability to predict is not limited to words in a sentence, but also encompasses grammar and abstract meaning.