For decades, neuroscientists have been trying to uncover the neural processes that allow humans and various other animals to ...

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While tics have been considered to result from an aberrant function of the brain's motor cortex, a Kobe University mouse ...

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In many therapeutic conversations about emotion, there is an implicit assumption: that the task is to identify what someone is feeling—and to name it more precisely. From a contemporary neuroscience ...

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Emojis are more than just fun symbols - your brain responds to them like real faces, according to new research.