Brain & Behavior

Yellow and red, showing the most frequently scanned areas, reveal the differences in scanning strategies employed by the sighted people (left) and the blind (right) while using ASenSub

Sight through Touch: The Secret Is in the Hand Movements

08.06.2021

Brain & Behavior

Recreating the “feel” of an object as participants move their fingers enables them to use their ingrained sensing strategies

The Egyptian fruit bat

Right Off the Bat: Navigation in Extra-Large Spaces

27.05.2021

Life Sciences, Brain & Behavior

Bats navigating in an innovative extra-large experimental setup reveal an unknown neuronal code

Avocado - a fruit abundant with beta-sitosterol. Photo credit: Shutterstock

A Natural Food Supplement May Relieve Anxiety

18.05.2021

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Mice receiving the plant-derived substance were less anxious than the controls

A mosquito on a notebook. Photo by Dr. Jonas Wietek

Brain Research Gets a Boost from Mosquitos

11.05.2021

Life Sciences, Brain & Behavior

New versions of light-sensitive proteins could illuminate the dark corners of our brain’s communication pathways

Electron microscopy images representing different views of the MC4 receptor bound to setmelanotide, in complex with proteins activated by the binding

The Hunger Games: Uncovering the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain

15.04.2021

Structural Biology, Brain & Behavior, Nutrition, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A 3D structure reveals how a unique molecular switch in our brain causes us to feel full – and may help develop improved anti-obesity drugs

Inhibitory mouse neurons – viewed under a microscope

An Essential Balancing Act: Neurons Adapt to Stay Steady

13.04.2021

Brain & Behavior

A study of lab-grown neurons reveals a new regulatory mechanism for keeping the On-Off switches in our brain in balance

Chen lab mouse adrenals exhibit stress

Stress on Every Cell: Mapping the Stress Axis in Detail

27.01.2021

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Brain & Behavior

Uncovering the activities of the organs, tissues and cells responsible for the body’s stress response as they’ve never before been seen revealed new...

Helping the Brain’s Immune Cells Regain the Ground State

Helping the Brain’s Immune Cells Regain the Ground State

11.01.2021

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

An anti-inflammatory agent keeps microglia responses short and to the point

A Brain Mechanism underlying “Vision” in the Blind is Revealed

A Brain Mechanism underlying “Vision” in the Blind is Revealed

07.01.2021

Brain & Behavior

Researchers observed slow spontaneous fluctuations in the brain’s visual centers that preceded visual hallucinations in blind people

Chaperones Do the Two-Step

Chaperones Do the Two-Step

03.12.2020

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

Understanding how certain proteins work as a team could shed new light on the way cells defend themselves against neurodegenerative disease

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