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Brain activity linked to performing tasks re-occurs during the REM sleep stage in humans.

Three months of training to increase compassion or understanding of others can alter the function and structure of various regions in the human brain.

Proteins, called neurexins, help to regulate communication through dopamine neurons in the brain of mice.

Assessing changes in the effective population size of several species of shorebirds over the past 20,000 years reveals the unexpected fallouts of extinction events of big mammals.

New evidence points towards the enzyme ALKBH5 regulating the repair of rodent nerve cells.

The protein HPK-1 in nerve cells of roundworms protects against ageing across the whole body.

Researchers have developed a new method for making fruit fly cell cultures that originate from a single type of cell.

A machine learning method applied to the recordings of leg movements in infants allows scientists to determine how and when babies explore different ways to move.