Neuroscience
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Humans
Language learning may begin before birth
Newborns show signs of having tracked moms’ speech while still in the womb.
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Neuroscience
Highlights from Neuroscience 2012
A collection of reports from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, New Orleans.
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Neuroscience
Drug helps put bad memories to rest
A brain injection before sleep aids fearful mice — and might lead to a PTSD treatment strategy.
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Neuroscience
Teens can keep their cool to win rewards
An unexpected experimental result suggests adolescent impulsivity is not inevitable.
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Neuroscience
Nonstick trick in the brain
Getting drugs into the brain has proved to be a nanoscale puzzle: Anything bigger than 64 nanometers — about the size of a small virus — gets stuck in the space between brain cells once it gets through the blood-brain barrier. Justin Hanes of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and colleagues got around this rule by coating particles destined for brain cells in a dense layer of a polymer called polyethylene glycol.
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Neuroscience
Copycat mentality may be a hardwired way for animals to learn to avoid others’ mistakes
Copycat mentality may be a hardwired way for animals to learn to avoid others’ mistakes.
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Neuroscience
When evaluating textbook dogmas about the brain, keep an open mind
When evaluating textbook dogmas about the brain, keep an open mind.