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On where altruistic behaviour can be found in our brain

We, human beings, are made in a way as to understand each other through external features, such as voice tone, facial expression and body language. All this information together with the natural context allows us to quickly and intuitively interpret the behaviour of others, their... click to read more

  • Anatoly Kozlov | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Genetics & Evolution, Section of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Reading time 4 min
published on Feb 4, 2020
Hunting new-born neurons in the human adult brain

The hippocampus is a brain region tightly related to memory processing. This region hosts one of the most peculiar phenomena that occurs in the adult mammalian brain: the continuous generation of new neurons during a lifetime. This phenomenon is named adult hippocampal neurogenesis and is... click to read more

  • Miguel Flor-García | PhD student at Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”; Department of Molecular Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Center for Networked Biomedical Research on neurodegenerative diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
  • Julia Terreros-Roncal | PhD student at Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”; Department of Molecular Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Center for Networked Biomedical Research on neurodegenerative diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
  • Elena P. Moreno-Jiménez | PhD student at Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”; Department of Molecular Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Center for Networked Biomedical Research on neurodegenerative diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
  • María Llorens-Martín | Professor at Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”; Department of Molecular Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Center for Networked Biomedical Research on neurodegenerative diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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Reading time 3 min
published on Jan 22, 2020
Mindfulness yoga relieves anxiety and depression for Parkinson’s patients

A participant from the mindfulness yoga program once said: "Many exercises required continual movements of the body. While yoga keeps your body moving, it trains your mind to become still in the present moment. Yoga grants me the full awareness of my body and mind,... click to read more

  • Jojo Y. Y. Kwok | Research Assistant Professor at School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
  • Leo C. C. Lam | Research Assistant at School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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Reading time 3 min
published on Dec 20, 2019
Gotta recognize ‘em all! Using Pokémon to understand brain development

Despite the differences that distinguish humans from one another, our brains are astonishingly similar to one another. Why are brains organized so identically to one another? This resemblance is especially striking in a region called the "temporal lobe". In this part of the brain, there... click to read more

  • Jesse Gomez | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Neurosciences Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Psychology Department, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Nov 19, 2019
Visualizing the effects of sleep on neurons’ maintenance

Why do we spend a third time of our lives sleeping? Why do all animals with a nervous system sleep? And how can we define sleep in all species? From jellyfish to mice to humans, all animals sleep despite the risk of predation and survival.... click to read more

  • David Zada | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Faculty of Life Sciences and The Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
  • Lior Appelbaum | Professor at The Faculty of Life Sciences and The Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Reading time 3 min
published on Oct 11, 2019