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A new study has demonstrated that early diagnosis and treatment lead to considerable improvement in the social symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.

People with Prader Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder, have an insatiable appetite. The result can be life-threatening overeating and obesity. According to a new study, their constant hunger results in part to disordered signaling in the brain’s cerebellum, a region of the brain also responsible for motor control and learning.

New discovery by the University of Trento on the analogies between moving in the physical and conceptual space: the brain has cells that act as a navigation system, but also has cells that function as a sort of compass.

A pre-clinical study in rats suggests that the psychedelic compound psilocybin might reverse excessive consumption of alcohol and genetic markers of altered brain chemistry seen in alcohol use disorder (AUD).

Using a new model of brain activity, computational neuroscientists are exploring bursts of activity that form ongoing “events” in the human brain that have not been examined before.

A study has shown that malnutrition intensifies defects in the degradation of the nerve connections formed by axons and dendrites.

Researchers from the HSE School of Linguistics and the Centre for Language and Brain carried out an experiment to find out how language speakers perceive the different meanings, or senses, of polysemous words.

Researchers revealed a striking pattern following a functional screen of extracts from plants collected in Muir Woods National Monument, in coastal redwood forest land in California. They found plants with a long history of use by Native Americans as topical analgesics, were often also used as gastrointestinal aids.

Researchers have long struggled to learn how the brain remembers spatial environments, especially those that are similar – such as two stores from the same supermarket chain – and how the brain avoids confusion, or doesn't.

Ant colonies use fluids passed mouth-to-mouth to create a colony-wide metabolism, shows a study published in eLife.