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Prof. Uri Rasovsky and his team. Self-portrait

through the body

Researchers are examining whether aerobic physical activity, which increases the level of oxytocin, the hormone of love and connection in the body, may improve the social functioning of those suffering from schizophrenia
Smoking rehab. Illustration: depositphotos.com

at the top of their concerns

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Significant progress towards personalized medicine in the field of psychiatry, with the help of a helmet that induces electromagnetic stimulation of the brain.

חולטה-השולל בהישולל בהישורים, the true reason for ליירירי הדיור ושיטה הגאוניט ההופקת את מעציעה השולל לעבדים מודריםים

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Chapter nine from the book: "The Free Man - Evolutionary Psychology, Brain Research and Understanding the Mind"
the human brain. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A grant of about one million dollars to a team of researchers who will try to find out why the human brain is stronger than other organisms

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Researchers at the Hebrew University and the University of Kentucky believe that a specific type of protein, which has not been studied before, substantially increases the molecular complexity in the brain and improves its function. "Such a discovery may have implications for the study of neurological diseases such as schizophrenia, epilepsy and autism"
Prof. Michal Schwartz. Photo: Weizmann Institute Spokesperson

Prof. Michal Schwartz from the Weizmann Institute won the Israel Prize for research on the relationship between the immune system and the nervous system

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Prof. Schwartz challenged the convention that nerve cells do not regenerate or recover, and discovered that the immune system also takes care of them. She also studied the blood-brain barrier and discovered that it prevents the cells of the immune system from helping in cases of brain damage such as Alzheimer's
How ketamine works: a schematic diagram of the new mechanism discovered in the study alongside the known mechanism. Ketamine molecule directly inhibits a certain type of receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate (top left) and produces a chain reaction that leads to increased expression of potassium ion channels (KCNQ) in neurons of the glutamate system in the anterior hippocampus (right)

Crossing the canal: how does today's most promising molecule for the treatment of depression work?

Using advanced methods for genetic sequencing at the single cell level, Weizmann Institute of Science scientists reveal a new molecular mechanism of action of ketamine - and show that combining it with another drug may lead to improved performance and reduced side effects
Prof. Haim Sompolinsky. Photography by David Salem - a pair of productions courtesy of the A.M.T. Award

The Grover Brain Research Award from Yale University was awarded to Prof. Haim Sompolinsky from the Hebrew University

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The award was given to Sompolinski for his pioneering contribution to theoretical and computational neuroscience. This is the first time that the prize is awarded to an Israeli scientist
The maze that the researchers built. Illustration: Prof. Avi Avital, University of Haifa

Are we born social?

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Interaction and contact with the outside world. Illustration: depositphotos.com 2011.

sense of touch

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A powerful combination of engineering, artificial intelligence and brain research may lead to a new era in medicine
Prof. Liyad Modrik. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

A surprising conclusion: the method of the experiment largely determines the result of the experiment

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Neuroscientists have reexamined hundreds of conflicting experiments on the relationship between brain activity and conscious experience. In the world of science today there are four leading and conflicting theories that deal with the study of awareness and the relationship to brain activity. In the study, the researchers re-examined hundreds of experiments that support the conflicting theories and discovered that the contradictions in the experimental findings are mainly due to methodological differences - that is, to a large extent, the form of the experiment predetermines its results
ALS disease. Image: shutterstock

The toolbox for fighting ALS proteins

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Technion researchers have discovered proteins in our bodies that are able to prevent processes that cause neurodegenerative diseases
A group of zebra fish in an aquarium. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Someone to swim with

How do zebrafish know how to swim in groups?
4D structure of the stemalnotide drug molecule (pink) and calcium ion (green) in the binding pocket of the MCXNUMX receptor

The Hunger Games: the mechanism of action of the switch in the brain responsible for the feeling of satiety

Understanding the mechanism is expected to help in the development of new anti-obesity drugs
Yuval El-Hannani, Prof. Yizhar Bar-Gad, Ila Matzner. Bar-Ilan University photo

Brain researchers from Bar Ilan won an international award sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

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"The Unconscious Patient (Allegory of the Sense of Smell)", 1625. Rembrandt painted this piece at the age of 19 as part of the Five Senses series. The painting was discovered in 2015 in the collection of a family in New Jersey

The smell test that predicts the return to consciousness of head injured people

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the amygdala. Photo: Prof. Roni Paz, Weizmann Institute

Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered neural activity patterns that characterize new conditioning learning

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autism. Illustration: shutterstock

The social life of nerve cells

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Magnetic resonance imaging of a subject without a olfactory bulb (right) and a subject with a olfactory bulb (left). Both with a completely normal sense of smell

Left, right and the sense of smell: about 4% of left-handed women have a normal sense of smell, even though they do not have a olfactory bulb

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Four mice in an equipped cage exhibit 60 different behaviors to be evaluated. The laboratory of Prof. Alon Chen, Weizmann Institute

Character of a mouse: Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a personality test for animals

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face recognition. Image by teguhjati pras from Pixabay

Researchers from Weizmann discovered a match between facial coding patterns in the human brain and artificial intelligence systems

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The inflammation of many brain cells at the same time in the hippocampus. Illustration: Prof. Rafi Malach's laboratory, Weizmann Institute

Weizmann Institute scientists have uncovered a pattern of activity in the human brain that underlies the process of remembering

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The hormone oxytocin (in purple) at the secretion points in the synapses (in green) in the transparent brain of a genetically modified zebrafish. Prof. Gil Levkovitch, Weizmann Institute

the love bubble

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The eye and the optic nerves in the cerebral cortex. Illustration: shutterstock

Man is allowed: Weizmann Institute scientists have found what is special about the human brain

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In genetically modified mice, which lack the importin alpha-5 protein (right), the MeCP2 molecule (in red), which affects anxious behavior, remains outside the nucleus (in blue) of the nerve cells in the brain, and does not penetrate into it as in normal mice (left). Computer processing of an image that was taken using a confocal microscope. Weizmann Institute

There is no entry for anxiety

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A section of a mouse cerebral cortex. Ndnf cells (in red) in the uppermost layer are associated with excitatory neurons (in green) in lower layers (in blue: cell nuclei). Courtesy of the laboratory of Prof. Ivo Spiegel, Weizmann Institute

A neural mechanism has been discovered that combines the internal information about our moods and the information received by the senses

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