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A new study coming from the Indiana University Scholl of Medicine in Indianapolis has shown that those who play violent video games experience less activation in the frontal regions of the brain.The study focused on eleven adult males, with ages between 18 and 29, who had not been exposed to many violent video games ... |
1 December 2011
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It might sound made up, but it's what Chris Birch calls “experience.” After breaking his neck during a freak training accident and suffering a stroke, the former straight rugby player woke up to find out he was gay.Birch is coming forward with his incredible story, telling the Mirror the accident tha... |
9 November 2011
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Investigators at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) say that the brain of numerous higher species is hardwired for cooperative activities. This is especially visible in humans, but scientists were recently surprised to discover clear signs of similar behavior in plain-tailed wrens.
JHU behavioral neuroscientist Eric... |
4 November 2011
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A new computer chip that is being developed by technology giant IBM allows a computer to actually learn the game of Pong and the strategies that lead to victory and might have a big impact on the gaming world in the long run.
The chip is called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics or SyNAP... |
22 August 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The huge brain that mammals have – in comparison to the size of their bodies – may have grown to these dimensions as a result of the enlargement of the olfactory bulb and the smell-processing areas of the cortex. The finding was made by studying a species that lived millions of years ago.
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21 May 2011
05:25 GMT |
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As human beings, we are able to carry out tremendously complex actions in a heartbeat, without giving them too much thought. The brain controls all the required muscles automatically, and experts have just learned a few more additional detail of how that is done. Scientists were able to discover how nerve cells cal... |
31 January 2011
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A team of researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain have found that there is a small area deep in the brain, called the perirhinal cortex, which is responsible for people's unconscious conceptual memories.All people have this type of memories, that pop out when you least expect them; it's like a... |
16 December 2010
04:39 GMT |
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A new study conducted at UC Santa Barbara concluded that the brain has several maps in a region called the precuneus, inside the parietal lobe, and these maps are what allow people to reach for different things and plan different movements.The two scientists examined the brains of 18 individuals who made 400 differen... |
3 December 2010
11:00 GMT |
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A new study carried out by German researchers, reported worrying findings about the impact of smoking, on the cerebral cortex.This is not the first research to report that tobacco smoking is related to large-scale and wide-spread abnormalities in the brain structure, but it is the first one to have focused on the imp... |
3 December 2010
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A team of neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard found that the same face can look male or female to a person, depending on where it appears in his/her field of view.If we are surrounded by people, we can tell usually who is a man and who is a woman, by looking at their clothes, or at their hair.This actually proves that... |
25 November 2010
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Applying a weak electrical current to the brain enhances a person's mathematical performance for a period of up to 6 months, without affecting other cognitive functions, reported a team of researchers from the University of Oxford.Roi Cohen Kadosh of the Department of Experimental Psychology and Oxford Center fo... |
5 November 2010
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A molecule containing a radioactive form of carbon can be used to locate aromatase – an enzyme responsible for the production of estrogen in the human brain, concluded a study carried out by the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory.Furthermore, it seems that the areas o... |
4 November 2010
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Syracuse University professor Stephanie Ortigue, found out that falling in love is “more scientific than you think”, because it can give the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine and it also affects intellectual areas of the brain.Stephanie Ortigue is an assistant professor of psychology and an adjunct a... |
23 October 2010
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Investigators conducting research on unsuspecting lab mice have demonstrated that fetal neurons exposed to elevated concentrations of a normal immune protein tend to lead to abnormal developments in the brain of adult rodents.The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles... |
15 October 2010
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A team of scientists from the Bernstein Center of the University Freiburg made a big step towards a way of predicting epileptic seizures, according to the latest issue of the journal 'Epilepsia'.Epileptic seizures can be very serious and researchers have been working for a while now on a method to predict t... |
6 October 2010
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Scientists have found that brain stimulation can change what hand you use most, thanks to magnetic pulses, which can disrupt the neurons that control motor skills.About 80 percent of people worldwide are right-handed, but when it comes to performing a task that does not require precision, most people are ambidextrous... |
28 September 2010
10:38 GMT |
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A new Canadian research found that playing video games many hours a day trains the brain for laparoscopic surgery precision of visuomotor tasks.The fact of playing video games is basically reorganizing the brain's cortical network in young men who have a significant experience in this domain, which gives them, b... |
24 September 2010
10:57 GMT |
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A team of scientists in Utah found a way of translating thoughts into words, well, only ten words for now, but the technique is very promising.This kind of research could largely benefit locked-in patients, that are unable to move or speak, and while most of them are able to blink to communicate, it is a rather diffi... |
23 September 2010
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A new study carried out by researchers at the University of Sheffield, shows that tranquil scenes have a positive impact on the brain.For the experiment, researchers used the fact that waves breaking on a beach have almost the same sound as traffic on a busy motorway, both sound like a constant roar.Participants were... |
14 September 2010
11:03 GMT |
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The HIV virus uses the brain as its hiding place, according to studies of the spinal fluid of patients under HIV treatment, a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, concludes.Researchers say that about 10 percent of patients had traces of the virus in their spinal fluid nut no sign of it in the blood, ... |
23 August 2010
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Scientists managed to trick honey bees into thinking they had traveled long distances to find food, and found out that this altered gene expression in their brains.The study used optical illusion to alter bees' perception of the flown distance, through same-length tunnels, as they discovered that vertical stripe... |
20 August 2010
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Single neurons and even single dendrites (the small receiving elements of neurons) can effectively identify and differentiate temporal sequences of incoming information, a new research carried out by UCL neuroscientists reveals.Until now, the scientists' general point of view was that for processing information,... |
13 August 2010
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“The Whole Brain Catalogue” is the name of a new project presented at the SIGGRAPH interactive technology and computer graphics conference, that aims to built a detailed map of the brain's complex structure.Scientists presented the way that a 3D model of a brain could be a huge step in neurological r... |
2 August 2010
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A new study carried out by a neurointerventional expert from Rush University Medical Center was presented at the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS) 7th annual meeting. This first-of-its-kind research says that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may also protect women against the form... |
31 July 2010
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Neurologists recorded an observer's brain's response while looking at someone playing a game. Responses depended upon the observers' implications in the game, whether they were neutral, wanted the player to win or wished for him to fail. The study is published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscienc... |
30 July 2010
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Recognizing faces is what allows us to avoid embarrassing memory failures and to still be in touch with people we know. But understanding exactly how it works might help people who need to match names and faces perfectly and also it can improve facial recognition of dangerous people, like criminals or terrorists.Just... |
29 July 2010
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A group of scientists announces the development of a new computer model that is capable of producing a type of science never before thought possible. The team plans to create maps of the fruit fly brain one cell at a time, in a bid to produce the first map of how neurons interact in their cortex. The end goal is to d... |
13 April 2010
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One of the most important properties of the human brain is called plasticity. It refers to the ability of the cortex to adapt to new stimuli all the time. While people are young, this ability is at work almost all of the time, breaking apart and creating new synapses and neural pathways, in an attempt to keep up with... |
26 February 2010
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Lumosity has announced the release of its fifth iPhone application, Lumosity Brain Trainer. The app requires an iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS version 3.1.2, and offers a complete brain-training experience in a mobile format, according to its developers. The cognitive neuroscience company behind Lumosity.com ... |
21 January 2010
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"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs, said. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.�... |
20 November 2009
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Bruce Hood, professor of developmental psychology at the Bristol University, may have come up with the perfect explanation why religion is such an integrant part of our lives – or, at least, for some of us. Going against what atheists say that religion is often only the result of a lack of education, Hood&rsquo... |
7 September 2009
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No one likes it when someone has some sort of public outburst and starts hurling insults at everyone and everything. However, cursing could be a very way of coping with pain by relieving it on the spot, a new research indicates. While the exact connection between swearing and pain management has yet to be established... |
14 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The neuroscience community has over the past few years been involved in endless arguments, as to whether a technique known as deep-brain stimulation – electrodes inserted in various parts of the cortex, which have electrical current passing through them – can trigger the formation of new, functional neuro... |
30 May 2009
04:55 GMT |
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For quite some time now, researchers have known that, in people addicted to drugs or medicine, the pleasure center in the brain gets “confused” and mixes up the responses it normally gives out in response to certain stimuli. Scientists have hypothesized that, by learning to control the action of this nerv... |
29 May 2009
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Sticking with a diet, even if it’s not as restrictive as it gets, can be a truly challenging task, but not because it’s our stomach that is literally pleading with us to eat more. As the findings of a new study reveal, our brain acts in quite an unpredictable manner when it comes to working out and dietin... |
14 May 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Researchers have just recently discovered that suppressing fear may no longer remain simply a question of training. They have uncovered that the portion of the brain associated with primal fear is not the amygdala, as some have been claiming for a few years, and that inhibiting another tiny region of the cortex can c... |
10 March 2009
06:17 GMT |
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The main issue and limitation with existing robots is the fact that, if a new piece or extension is added to them after their construction is finished, the software controlling the entire thing has to be fully re-designed and re-implemented, in order to ensure that the “graft” holds. This process takes up... |
5 February 2009
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A group of archaeologists from the UK have unearthed an ancient skull that dates back from the Roman invasion, 2,000 years ago. Surprisingly, the head of the unlucky person it used to belong to was not buried along with the body, but that's not the oddest part. When she was attempting to clean the discovered sku... |
13 December 2008
13:21 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Michigan, led by Daniel Weissman, studied the interactions that occur between multiple areas of the brain when boredom sets in, and discovered that, as attention fades, so does the intensity at which several nervous centers communicate. The results were obtained by keeping volunteers ... |
11 December 2008
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Oxygen deprivation can lead to a condition known as brain swelling – or cerebral edema – which seems to have been the culprit in several of the yet unexplained deaths of people escalating Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world. Thus far, these unfortunate accidents were attributed to Yeti, the snowm... |
10 December 2008
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Brown University researchers, scientist Michael J. Tarr, a Fox professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences at the University, and graduate student Adrian Nestor, discovered that men have more red pigment on their faces, whereas women tend to have more green. The d... |
8 December 2008
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Taking notice of the fact that slogans like "Just say No" are not that effective, scientists decided to turn to teenagers' curiosity towards themselves and their bodies, in an attempt to stop surging alcohol usage in the United States. Currently, drinking is the most widespread vice in the country, with a report... |
4 December 2008
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An acoustic "oddity" has been identified by American researchers. It would seem that when a sample of a recorded voice is played back repeatedly, at the same pitch, length and speed, the brain will start perceiving it as music. Scientists are puzzled by this find, as it brings forth a new function of the brain, which... |
12 November 2008
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University College London (UCL) scientists conducted new experiments recently, designed to study the patterns that the brain activates when a person feels hate. This study is a part of a larger one, designed to map and catalog the parts of the brain that are involved in main human emotions, such as love, hate, fear, ... |
29 October 2008
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Since scientists generally tend not to believe in anything that cannot be explained, like the supernatural happenings, some of them have embarked on the mission of proving the (non-)existence of ghosts and other Poltergeist phenomena. Believing that the source of spectral sights or other cases of abnormal presences l... |
28 October 2008
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A recent test on brain activity during reading and Internet surfing has indicated that the latter is superior to the old reading hobby, in that it stimulates more highly the areas related to memory, decision making and visual images, situated in the frontal, temporal and the cingulate regions of the brain. Still, whe... |
27 October 2008
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The US Army wants to fund a research that would render regular modern communication methods obsolete and, instead, use transmission of information via thought. According to the scientists' prognoses, this technology is some 20 years away, but the premises and basic technology have already been developed.The &ldq... |
14 October 2008
09:52 GMT |
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A series of five games that are proven to improve mental abilities was distributed free of charge by Allstate insurance company to 100,000 old age drivers from Pennsylvania. Of course, they are all driving-based games, not “Diablo,” “World of Warcraft” or “GTA.” The game suite... |
14 October 2008
06:23 GMT |
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A new device that relies on the brain's first impulsive reactions when subjected to images it would recognize may render the DNA or fingerprint-based techniques obsolete in the near future. A neuroscientist from Seattle, Dr. Larry Farwell, chairman of Brain Fingerprinting Labs, helped science become more in... |
13 October 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Most of us have found ourselves in situations in which, when dealing with creativity issues, the solution failed to appear right there on the spot, but rather all of a sudden, after a while of not paying attention to them. This is how we instantly knew how to solve a certain math problem, continue the song we started... |
6 October 2008
05:52 GMT |
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