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People with spinal cord injuries often lose movement even though their brains still send the right signals. Researchers ...

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

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A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

Brain researchers have identified a bridge between the thalamus and the cortex as the key area that is modified during motor learning functions. They found that such learning does much more than ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

Researchers have developed a machine learning model capable of predicting whether a patient with depression will respond to ...

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