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Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

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Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

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A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...

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Just in time for its recent name change from the Department of Pharmacology to the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, the department at the University of Iowa named Ted Abel as its new chair ...

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