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Researchers have identified a key neural switch that controls whether animals instinctively flee from a threat or freeze in place. By comparing two closely related deer-mouse species, they found that ...

UC Berkeley researchers mapped the brain circuits that control growth hormone during sleep, uncovering a feedback system ...

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For decades, scientists have looked at various mechanisms responsible for the decline of our mental faculties as we age. A new discovery shows that the accumulation of a certain protein called the ...