Brain & Behavior

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Behavioral Changes Seen after Sleep Learning

12.11.2014

Brain & Behavior

Volunteers smoked less after a night of olfactory conditioning

Magnetic resonance image of a rat’s brain subjected to a partial stroke in the right hemisphere (black square); the left hemisphere remained intact (green square)

Weakness into Strength

27.10.2014

Brain & Behavior, Chemistry, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

An MRI method for picking up the faintest signals can reveal the workings of the brain

Immunofluorescence microscope image of the choroid plexus. Epithelial cells are in green and chemokine proteins (CXCL10) are in red

Scientists Identify the Signature of Aging in the Brain

29.09.2014

Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology

Weizmann Institute researchers suggest that the brain's “immunological age” is what counts

Measuring the response to novelty: A mouse repeatedly touches the object and pulls away (nose and whisker contacts are color-coded; d is the distance of the snout from the object)

Curiosity and Constraint

22.09.2014

Brain & Behavior

A mathematical model shows how our brains may take in novelty

backcrossing wild-derived mice with lab mice infographic

Pheromones Regulate Aggression of Non-Mother Female Mice toward Pups in Wild-Derived Mice

05.08.2014

Brain & Behavior, Genetics

A new mouse model enables research into the neural and genetic roots of social behavior, including reproduction and maternal instinct

Dr. Yaniv Ziv

Remembering in Time

21.07.2014

Lasers & Optics, Brain & Behavior

Dr. Yaniv Ziv want to know how our brain keeps memories of individual events in order

depression

Tiny Molecule Could Help Diagnose and Treat Mental Disorders

19.06.2014

Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Weizmann Institute scientists “fingerprint” a culprit in depression, anxiety and other mood disorders

Our nerves respond to a range of stimuli

A Break in the Signal

03.04.2014

Brain & Behavior

Why does a background noise that stops and suddenly starts again get our attention?

(l-r) Prof. Dr. Peter Gruss, President of the Max Planck Society, Prof. Daniel Zajfman, President of the Weizmann Institute with the signed agreement

New German-Israeli Laboratory Inaugurated at the Weizmann Institute

05.03.2014

Brain & Behavior

The Weizmann Institute's Prof. Alon Chen will head the Lab

Writ Large – and Small

Writ Large – and Small

06.02.2014

Brain & Behavior, Math & Computer Science, Mathematics

How does the brain encode movements that occur on many scales?

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