Week of March 18, 2019: Read the Latest Advocacy and Science News

Alligators encode a sound's location in space like birds but differently than mammals, according to a comparative animal study published in JNeurosci.

Swapping dietary saturated fats for monounsaturated fats reverses nerve damage and restores nerve function in male mice, finds new preclinical research published in JNeurosci.

The human brain can unconsciously respond to changes in Earth's magnetic fields, according to an interdisciplinary study published in eNeuro by a team of geoscientists and neurobiologists.

Week of March 11, 2019: Read the Latest Advocacy and Science News

Week of March 4, 2019: Read the Latest Advocacy and Science News

Multisensory neurons in the primate amygdala may provide the building blocks needed to process social and emotional information, according to new research published in JNeurosci.

Discarding information from the brain is associated with more mental effort than keeping it, finds a human neuroimaging study published in JNeurosci.

Aiming for treatment they have spent more than 30 years describing, understanding and diagnosing the most common hereditary form of stroke, CADASIL. For this, the four French neuroscientists are now receiving the world's most valuable prize for brain research – the Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize, worth 1 million euros.

An analysis published in JNeurosci of brain scans from more than 600 children and adolescents reveals genetically-mediated associations between the size of evolutionarily novel brain regions and intelligence test scores.