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Dr. Drew Ramsey has been a psychiatrist for over 20 years, and he's consistently found throughout his neuroscience research ...

Dysfunctional Family. A family tree of tau folds now incorporates two new structures—P301L, P301T (bottom)—and fills in ...

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Now, however, researchers have identified a previously undiscovered brain network that might be behind this mind-body connection, according to new research published today (April 19) in Nature. The ...

Macaque monkeys, for example, have at least 32 functionally distinct areas of the cerebral cortex that are devoted primarily to processing visual information (Van Essen et al., 1992; Van Essen ...

The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible for planning and executing actions. Using advanced ...