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As aging bodies decline, the brain loses the ability to cleanse itself of waste, a scenario that scientists think could…

Sex comprises an intricate tangle of impulses and interactions between partners. All the while, the brain hosts an even more…

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual…

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For more than three decades, scientists have been racing to stop Alzheimer's disease by removing amyloid beta plaques — sticky…

Schizophrenia might be among the most intensely studied mental illnesses. However, its causes—and the way those causes manifest in the…

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation,…

While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on different types…

Two studies published in the latest issue of  Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the Achucarro Basque…

Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they…