University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two amygdala-striatal pathways, disrupting flexible decision-making and promoting ...

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a debilitating condition and a major cause of premature death worldwide. Chronic stress plays a significant role, but the underlying mechanism involving ...

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Nerve-cell ‘highways’ identified in mice suggest that stress pushes the brain towards rigid habit and away from thoughtful ...

Led by researchers from NYU Langone Health, the work found that a circuit known to carry messages from a brain region that processes sensory information, the entorhinal cortex (EC), to the memory ...

A new study has found that any alteration to specific creative circuits in the brain can release a spur of creativity. While ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

Feb. 4, 2025 – Microplastics have been found in the brain, showing they can cross the blood-brain barrier, and the amounts of the tiny plastic bits inside our bodies appear to be increasing at a ...

Another possible explanation is based on where memories are stored in the brain. Scientists believe some highly emotional memories are stored in the amygdala, which is the same part of the brain ...

Label updates in the pharmaceutical space are not uncommon, particularly in the first few years after a launch in response to real-world experience data. Since its launch in Europe four years ago ...

The washed and ready-to-eat 12-ounce Marketside Broccoli Florets, with a best-if-used-by date of Dec. 10, 2024, were voluntarily recalled on Dec. 27, 2024 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer ...

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study Sarah Kuta Daily ...