How Does The Brain Manage Everyday Memory Events?
An intuitive model for the formation of memories (the two streams hypothesis) that has prevailed for the past decades in memory research is that what…
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Game Theory Tells Us How To Efficiently Use Institutions For Governing The Commons
Cooperation is imperative when humans deal with the consequence of collective actions, such as global warming, overfishing, or preserving natural resources. However, the collapse of…
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The Use Of Emotions Can (Also) Be Learned, According To A Twin Study
Whether you suppress your emotions or look at them from a different angle to make them less painful depends to varying degrees on the genes,…
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Predicting Major Depressive Disorder In Disaster Victims
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a relatively common psychiatric illness that is one of the major sources of disability worldwide and may lead to suicide….
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From Quantum Mechanics To Brain Neurostimulation: Abnormal Synchronization Of Neuronal Activity
Life has been considered for a long time as the most fascinating expression of the complexity of our universe, and the human brain is at…
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Pinocembrin: A Natural Compound For Treatment Of Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage And Traumatic Brain Injury
In the past decades, hospital admissions for acute brain injury have continued to rise. For instance, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are…
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An Analysis Of The Correlation Between Population And Crime Rates
Social scientists have tried to explain geographic concentrations of crime for more than a century. Two macro-sociological explanations are often investigated. First, social disorganization theory…
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Putting Visual Information Into Context
The cerebral cortex is the seat of advanced human faculties such as language, long-term planning, and complex thought. Research over the last 60 years has shown…
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Is Methylation Of MORC1 A Depression Biomarker?
Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder with a high prevalence worldwide. With over 300 million affected people, it is one of the leading causes…
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Can Fish Tell Us Anything About Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. – H.P. Lovecraft…
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Biologically-Plausible Spiking Neural Networks For Object Recognition
Primates are so fast and accurate in understanding the surrounding visual world. Their visual cortex lets them do invariant object recognition in just 100-150ms [1]….
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