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But in the long term, too much cortisol can kill you because it actually shrinks your hippocampus, the brain area responsible for memory storage,” says Avron. And although the test subjects were ...

This innovative study aimed to investigate how brain networks respond to complex auditory and visual stimuli by screening ...

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With growing evidence that loneliness increases the risk for multiple diseases, there are questions about the mechanisms at ...

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Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers from ...

In a new multidisciplinary study published in the PNAS, a group of researchers from neuroscience and economics at the IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca links the debated concept of "ego depletion", ...