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  • Viral remnant in chimpanzees silences brain gene humans still use
    Jan 28 2026

    The retroviral insert appears to inadvertently switch off a gene involved in brain development.

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    6 minutos
  • Why emotion research is stuck-and how to move it forward
    Jan 28 2026

    Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.

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    10 minutos
  • How artificial agents can help us understand social recognition
    Jan 17 2026

    Neuroscience is chasing the complexity of social behavior, yet we have not answered the simplest question in the chain: How does a brain know “who is who”? Emerging multi-agent artificial intelligence may help accelerate our understanding of this fundamental computation.

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    6 minutos
  • Common and rare variants shape distinct genetic architecture of autism in African Americans
    Jan 17 2026

    Certain gene variants may have greater weight in determining autism likelihood for some populations, a new study shows.

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    5 minutos
  • Bringing African ancestry into cellular neuroscience
    Jan 15 2026

    Two independent teams in Africa are developing stem cell lines and organoids from local populations to explore neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions.

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    8 minutos
  • Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience
    Jan 13 2026

    Dissecting different parallel processing streams may help us understand the mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms, such as delusions, and unite human and animal research.

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    8 minutos
  • This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on the subjectivity of selfhood
    Jan 12 2026

    Wittlinger, Wehner and Wolf’s 2006 “stilts and stumps” Science paper revealed how ants pull off extraordinary feats of navigation using a biological odometer, and it inspired Tuthill to consider how other insects sense their own bodies.

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    8 minutos
  • Some facial expressions are less reflexive than previously thought
    Jan 12 2026

    A countenance such as a grimace activates many of the same cortical pathways as voluntary facial movements.

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    5 minutos