Participation in elite adult rugby may be associated with changes in brain structure. This is the finding of a study of 44 elite rugby players,
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Imperial researchers have created a traumatic brain injury (TBI) computer model that maps blood vessels in a rat brain in the highest resolution yet. They
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Climate change will inevitably have dramatic consequences on all aspects of our lives ranging from altered climate having an impact on flooding and drought, but
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A cross-disciplinary team including University of Texas at Austin statisticians Giorgio Paulon and Abhra Sarkar have received the Mitchell Prize, a top prize in the
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In the United States, nearly every pediatric doctor’s visit begins with three measurements: weight, height and head circumference. Compared to average growth charts of children
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More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of spirituality and religiosity
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A new discovery in rats shows that the brain responds differently in immersive virtual reality environments versus the real world. The finding could help scientists
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A study from UCLA neurologists challenges the idea that the brain recruits existing neurons to take over for those that are lost from stroke. It
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There’s no simple way to put it: Living through a global pandemic isn’t easy, and it can have profound, long-lasting effects on us. It even
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The biological mechanisms behind stress-related psychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are poorly understood. New research now details the interplay
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