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Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, the University of São Paulo and UC Santa Cruz collaborated to discover and validate the enzymes responsible for the production of one of the most toxic and fast-acting neurotoxins associated with freshwater harmful algal blooms in lakes and ponds.

Researchers have developed a brain-permeable compound (25-106) that targets a signaling regulator in brain neurons. The team notes that when the new compound was administered to mice, it could alter their neurobehavior and reduce anxiety-like behavior.

A natural disaster, a dented car, an injured person - memories of traumatic experiences can be controlled by deliberately suppressing the images that arise. Researchers have now shown that this process causes memories of the experiences to fade.

A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) shows that the optic gland in maternal octopuses undergoes a massive shift in cholesterol metabolism, resulting in dramatic changes in the steroid hormones produced.

A team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen has discovered a new piece in the puzzle of the brain’s ‘feel good’ substance, dopamine.

A gene-targeting approach could help prevent or treat neonatal brain injuries associated with oxidative stress following preterm birth.

In the first study of its kind, Penn researchers and an international team of collaborators found that genetics and environmental factors contribute to how socioeconomic status shapes the architecture of the brain.

A new imaging method has been developed to enable visualization of both blood flow and the activity of the entire brain at the same time.

People with neurofibromatosis type 1 have hyperexcitable neurons which leads to tumors developing. Researchers have identified that an epilepsy drug can suppress this hyperactivity and halt tumor growth.

Everyone eats the equivalent of three extra McDonald’s cheeseburgers a day than they admit - regardless of their waistline, researchers have revealed.