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Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

Memory dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease may be linked to impairment in how the brain replays our recent experiences while we are resting, according to a new study in mice by University College ...

Synaptic plasticity - the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning - is one of the neural functions profoundly altered in Huntington's disease, with a direct ...

A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental ...

Review of Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders – And How We Can Change That. By Nicole Rust. Princeton University Press. More than a billion people around the world suffer ...

For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...