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NEUROSCIENCE | ALL TOPICS

 

The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think

By JOANNA THOMPSON

Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternative explanations are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.

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NEUROSCIENCE

 

How Loneliness Reshapes the Human Brain

By MARTA ZARASKA

Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.

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QUANTIZED COLUMNS

 

When Does the Brain Operate at Peak Performance?

By JOHN M. BEGGS

The critical brain hypothesis suggests that neural networks do their best work when connections are not too weak or too strong.

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GENOMICS

 

How a DNA 'Parasite' May Have Fragmented Our Genes

By JAKE BUEHLER

A novel type of "jumping gene" may explain why the genomes of some complex cells are more densely stuffed with noncoding sequences than others.

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PHYSIOLOGY

 

In the Gut's 'Second Brain,' Key Agents of Health Emerge

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles that scientists are only just starting to understand.

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