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The Science of Chocolate

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Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Fear Learning and Memory

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Your Brain's Invisible Shield: How Anticipation Primes Your Immune System

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Pancreas-Brain Feedback in Bipolar and Depression

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AMPA Receptor Activity and Myelinated Axon Loss in Neuroinflammation

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Targeting AMPA Receptors to Restore Synapses in Autoimmune Demyelination

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The use of behavioral test batteries: effects of training history

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Human CLOCK's Role in Cognitive Flexibility

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Unlocked a New Method of Treating Alzheimer's Disease and other Cognitive Decline

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The Neural Circuit Governing Sleep Homeostasis

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Olfactory Bulb and Memory Dysfunction in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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SCN GRPNs: Modulatory Role in Circadian Photic Entrainment

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Hippocampal Ripples Decrease During Physical Actions in Rodents

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DDX3X Mutations: Sex-Specific Effects on Brain Development

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Autism and Social Avoidance: Neural Circuitry of Touch Discrimination

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Autism associated Chd8 Gene Duplication and Neurodevelopmental Defects in Mice

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Precision nutrition for Cardiometabolic Diseases

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Health impacts of exposure to synthetic chemicals in food

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How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you

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Microbiome Signatures of Parkinson’s Disease Revealed Through AI

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Climate Change Linked to Sleep Apnea

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Neural Flexibility: A Possible Autism Intervention

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How Exercise Rewires the Brain

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Why don’t bats get cancer?

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Psilocybin Remodels Cortical Neurons and Behavior

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Why a Boy Could Not Feel Pain

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How to keep weight off after obesity drugs

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World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing

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Emergence and Development of a Gender Gap in Mathematics

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Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness.

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How Single Neurons in the Amygdala and Hippocampus encode face identity

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Identical Twins, Unequal Outcomes: The Genetics of Sensitivity

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Ozempic, Mounjaro & the Drop-Off Effect: What the Data Says

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Popular Sugar Substitute May Impair Brain Blood Vessel Health

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Breakthrough for HIV cure using mRNA-based T cell therapeutics

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Iron Deficiency Leads to Mouse Sex Reversal

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Is Myelin a Source of Energy During a Marathon?

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Excessive Oliec Acid in Olive Oil Drives Fat Cell Growth

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Flush Out Alzheimer's Toxins

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Why Casinos use blue light

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Early exposure to dogs could help protect against eczema

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Daily mango may support postmenopausal woman's health

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Brain Uses Separate Synapses to Balance Learning and Stability

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Functional polymorphism of CYCLE underlies the diapause variation in moths

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The Architecture of Enduring Emotion and Anxiety's Origins

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Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice

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The organ farm

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Brain-Wide Reinforcement Learning Through Cortical Oscillation

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Leptin Directs Motor Control Through Dopamine Pathways

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Mef2c Guides Callosal Axon Targeting by Regulating Ephrin Repulsion

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Genetic and environmental factors influencing the relationship between sleep spindles and the volume of the thalamus

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Night owls are more likely to suffer cognitive decline than morning people

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Early Olfactory Bulb activity may contribute to altered brain maturation and cognitive deficits

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Changes in neuronal processing upon falling asleep and awakening

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Neural mechanisms underlying the retrieval of temporal order memories

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Robustness of working memory to prefrontal cortex microstimulation

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The epigenetic reader PHF23 is required for embryonic neurogenesis

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Words vs. Pictures: Mapping the Brain’s Reading Tug-of-War

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Distinct Circuits Link Dorsal/Ventral Hippocampus to MFC

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Neuronal Glutaminolysis Drives Epileptogenesis

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You Could Catch Your Partners Depression Through Kissing

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Revolutionary Alzheimer's Blood Test

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Candidate Drug that Boots Protective Brain Protein to Treat Alzheimer's

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Protective genetic variants against Alzheimer's disease

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The gut–brain axis in early Parkinson’s disease: from prodrome to prevention

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Alzheimer's Drug Candidate Protects the Blood-Brain Barrier From Damage

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Light enhances the antibacterial activity of neutrophils through circadian regulation

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Vitamin D Supplements Show Signs of Protection Against Aging

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Biological Markers for Teen Depression

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Muscle Quality as a Marker for Early Cognitive Decline in Adults

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Math and biology meet in the cerebellum

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The emergence and demise of giant sloths

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Turf algae redefine the chemical landscape of temperate reefs, limiting kelp forest recovery

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Health impacts of exposure to synthetic chemicals in food

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Eleanor Maguire (1970–2025)

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A dynamic and multimodal framework to define microglial states

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Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal

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A basic role for glia in sleep homeostasis

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Microglia and T Cells Drive White Matter Aging

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Neuronal Senescence in Dorsal Root Ganglia and Pain

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mGluR5 Mediates Activity-Driven Myelin Sheath Growth

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Cysteine Deficiency Drives Weight Loss by Depleting coenzyme A

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Insulin Resistance may be a factor linking Alzheimer's and epilepsy

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Genomic Study of Long COVID Finds FOXP4 Link

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Astrocytic PERK Inhibition Restores Glymphatic Function in AD

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How poverty and loneliness are linked to pain, fatigue, and low mood

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Predicting Postpartum Depression Risk Before Discharge

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Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Predicts Future Defensive Actions

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Don't hit the snooze button when waking up

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Inflammation tied to motivation deficits in schizophrenia

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Quantifying the lifespan of synaptic proteins during learning using Delta

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Hippocampal Replay Composes Future Behavior

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Linking brain inflammation to repetitive behaviors in Autism and OCD

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Cancer Needs Neuroscience and Neuroscientists

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Why Women have faster heart rates than Men

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First-of-Its-Kind mRNA Therapy Corrects Rare Metabolic Mutation in Infant

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Caffeine consumption might protect against cognitive decline and of Alzheimer’s disease

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COVID Brain Fog May Have a Biological Trigger, Study Finds

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SYNGAP1 Roles in Excitability and Seizure Susceptibility

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LUZP1 Regulates Synaptic Plasticity and Cognition