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Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears ...

Heavy lifetime cannabis use is associated with reduced brain activation in key cognitive regions, particularly during working ...

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It is one of the private bath complexes ever found in Pompeii, and is located within a grand Roman house in Insula 10 of ...

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A study of individuals with cocaine use disorder found that, when given the option, those with a thicker insula region in the brain administered more cocaine infusions to themselves. Women generally ...

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When was the last time you ate and focused only on eating? Many of us eat while working, while fiddling with our smartphones, or when we’re on the go. “Distracted eating,” as it’s termed ...

Our results demonstrate that discriminative thermosensory cortex lies in the dorsal margin of the middle/posterior insula of humans. We first explored changes in regional activity over the entire ...

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