Study reveals diminished brain activity related to empathy for pain in individuals with behavioral variant frontotemporal ...

Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the ...

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The study provides compelling evidence that beta oscillations across the neocortex and basal ganglia map onto shared functional and structural networks that show significant positive correlations with ...

Unknown. Multiple in silico algorithms yielded conflicting results.

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin cancer worldwide, often producing shiny lesions on the skin that can be (but are not always) discolored. It develops in the basal cells, ...

This study provides valuable evidence for the mechanism underlying KCNC1-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. The authors have generated and characterized a new knock-in mouse with a ...

Studies on healthy individuals and lesion studies have suggested that the following areas are important for empathy: ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), inferior frontal ...

At the same time, depressive behavior is linked to overactivation of the hypothalamus, which coordinates the stress response, and overactivity of the amygdala, which signals threat and generates ...