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Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the ...

To explore this, the researchers used a genetically engineered mouse model that mimics ... Treated mice showed less shrinkage in key brain regions and thicker layers of neurons in the dentate gyrus ...

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Article Published: August 1998 Dopaminergic regulation of cerebral cortical microcirculation Leonid S. Krimer, E. Christopher Muly III, Graham V. Williams & Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic Nature ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

The barrel cortex consists of the regions of the primary somatosensory cortex that receive input from the whiskers via the thalamus. Barrel cortex is organized into cylindrical columns of neurons ...

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start-it becomes refined by what ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...