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Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.
- Health & Medicine
The nose knows a trillion scents
There's a long-standing claim that people can identify 10,000 different odors. But a new study suggests that people can actually identify at least 10,000 times that many scents.
- Brain
Understanding Autism
Genetics appears to play some role in this disorder, which affects more than one percent of all Americans.
- Brain
Getting a head start on autism
Early diagnosis followed by early treatment may reduce autism’s impact on kids — and help them to communicate better.
- Brain
Mapping the brain’s highways
A new map may explain why some brain injuries are worse than others. Even relatively minor injuries that disrupt message superhighways may have a more devastating impact than some seemingly catastrophic injuries.
- Brain
The teenage brain
Adolescence triggers brain — and behavioral — changes that few kids or adults understand.
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- Chemistry
DEET confuses mosquitoes
Scientists suspect the repellant messes with a mosquito’s sense of smell.
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- Health & Medicine
Gut Instinct
New mouse study reveals a connection between intestinal bacteria and behavior.
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- Animals
Open eyes, dozing minds
Scientists find that rats that stay up late are neither fully asleep nor fully awake.
- Health & Medicine
Fat weighs heavy on the brain
New study shows obesity interferes with memory, thinking and reasoning.
