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Glutamate is first released near the AMPA-type glutamate receptors, then released near the NMDA-type receptors immediately after the first signal to activate the switch for synaptic plasticity.

For all its comparisons to the human brain, AI still isn't much like us. Maybe that’s alright. In the animal kingdom, brains come in all shapes and sizes. So, in a new machine learning approach, engineers did away with...

Study reviews differences in cognitive processes between atheists and those who believe in a deity.

More than half-a-billion years ago, ancient terrestrial fungus may have helped Earth recover from a catastrophic ice age.

Study reveals the function of a specific protein works differently in the brains of men and women. The findings help explain why some psychiatric disorders and resistance to treatments vary between the sexes.