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The same areas of the human brain that underly the larger sense of morality each of us is experiencing daily are also activated when we engage in, or are exposed to, egalitarian behaviors. This was recently demonstrated using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).The imaging technique, which analyzes how blood... |
10 April 2012
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Scientists have been trying to locate the source of creativity in the human brain for quite some time now, and steady progress is being made. While the issue remains far from resolved, a new study managed to discover that the process requires both brain hemispheres working together.
Usually, each task we perform act... |
6 March 2012
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Did you know that the brain activates in different patterns when playing games with others, as opposed to when you're playing against yourself? If not, it may interest you to know that this happens because we are building a model of how our opponents and team members think and act, inside our brains. How this ca... |
7 February 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new study conducted by experts at the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, in Madrid, Spain, it would appear that changes in gray matter volumes may be related to the onset of schizophrenia, especially in teens.
The investigators found that teenagers who r... |
3 January 2012
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In a study conducted using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), investigators were able to determine that playing violent video games changes neural activity in certain areas of the brain for up to a week after the initial measurement was made.
The brains of young adults exhibited modified activity pattern... |
1 December 2011
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The brains of people who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) display an anomaly that is not present in the healthy brain, investigators at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, say in a new study.
Led by researcher Xiaobo Li, PhD, an assistant professor of radiology at the Col... |
30 November 2011
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People who have been practicing meditation for many years seem to be able to shutdown certain parts of their brains, investigators from the Yale University say. Interestingly, these areas are exactly those involved in underlying conditions such as autism and schizophrenia, among others.
The same ability was not det... |
22 November 2011
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In a paper researchers at the Vanderbilt University published in the latest issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, they reveal that the brains of people who consume alcohol have to work extra hard to carry out the same task as their non-drinking peers.
The connection holds true regardle... |
19 November 2011
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Scientists at the Munich, Germany-based Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (MPIP) say that the human brain shows the same activation patterns in motor control regions when we sleep and dream as we do when we are awake.
This may be one of the main reasons why certain dreams may appear too real to many. If people env... |
28 October 2011
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Swiss researchers from the University of Zürich were recently able to identify areas of the brain that are responsible for underlying social fairness and acceptance. They say that these neural hotspots are responsible for exerting control over selfish impulses and economic self-interest.
The reason why this i... |
12 October 2011
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Dyslexia, a developmental reading disorder, is a disability that occurs when the human brain is not capable of recognizing and processing certain symbols properly. A new study demonstrates that this disorder has nothing to do with IQ levels, as previous researches had indicated.
Naturally, dyslexia affects childre... |
23 September 2011
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A recent study conducted on the human brain revealed that empathy is not produced in a single area of the brain. Rather, multiple areas interact in intricate patterns in order to underly this human ability. Empathy is what allows us to put ourselves in another person's shoes, to relate to what they are feeling, ... |
18 July 2011
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Despite tremendous advancements in the field of medicine, experts still have a poor understanding of what happens to the human brain when it enters a vegetative state. A new study by an international collaboration managed to cast some light on this mystery by using humor and jokes. Researchers in Canada and the Unite... |
7 July 2011
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In a new study, investigators have determined that a clear correlation exits between living in urban areas and the lifelong risk people doing so have of developing mood disorders or anxiety.
In other words, city life has been found to exert a clear influence on nerve, emotion and stress centers in the brain, subj... |
25 June 2011
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Children as young as 3 can meet the clinical criteria for being diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD), says a part of the international scientific community. The other half opposes this notion, arguing that such a diagnostic cannot be placed on a 3-year-old.Studies conducted on this issue up to this point ha... |
3 June 2011
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers sought to determine the potential uses that a brain imaging technique called functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) could have on detecting autism.For the research, the research team selected a group of 12-year-old kids, of which 15 were healthy control, and 12 exh... |
1 June 2011
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Canadian investigators from the University of Toronto believe they may have discovered a new method of predicting whether former depression patients will experience a relapse. Their approach is based on studying the neural activity these individuals display when experiencing mild states of sadness.The group says that... |
30 May 2011
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A simple test can be used to test for Alzheimer's disease with tremendous results, a long time before symptoms of the disease begin manifesting themselves. Researchers explain in a new study that this test could reduce Alzheimer's-associated healthcare costs tremendously.One of the advantages this approach ... |
16 May 2011
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A meta-analysis of studies conducted thus far on bipolar disorder has revealed that the condition can be identified by detecting certain abnormalities in the brain. These variations from the norm can be thought of as neurobiological markers for the disease.This systematic review of the work conducted in the field pro... |
4 May 2011
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Investigators in Ireland managed to get some new insight into the way smokers and non-smokers' brains function. The results of the work could help people who are trying to quit smoking do so easier than currently possible. What the team was interested in finding out was whether brain activity patterns were diffe... |
28 April 2011
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In a new scientific study, experts managed to demonstrate that meditation can be a powerful tool for making rational decisions, as well as for dealing with unfair situations when they present themselves.Researches such as this one are informed by the fact that practitioners of Buddhism, who are known to meditate for ... |
21 April 2011
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it would appear that real-time brain feedback is helping people manage their thought more efficiently. The research, carried out using brain-imaging technology, opens a new avenue for research in neuroscience. Experts with the University of British Columbia (UB... |
9 April 2011
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Determining whether people who suffer from mild cognitive impairment will go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease is a very important issue in today's medicine, considering the heavy toll that treating this condition takes on public healthcare systems. A way of doing this has just been proposed.Experts at the... |
8 April 2011
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Scientists recently demonstrated that physical pain and social rejection tend to produce a very similar, hurtful effect on the average person. In other words, it's equally painful to hurt someone physically, or to exclude them from a social group. In the new experiments, experts showed that both types of events ... |
29 March 2011
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When a kid reaches preteen years, this usually marks a transition from childhood to adolescence, and involves a lot of changes in the young one's personality. Peer pressure becomes an important factor in the life of a preteen, but experts now say that the kids' brains actually evolve to resist it. For centu... |
29 March 2011
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People who do not get enough sleep each night are at increased risk of suffering from short-term euphoria, impaired decision-making abilities and an urge to engage in risky behaviors, experts say. The new work, which was carried out by experts at the Harvard Medical School and the University of California in Berkeley... |
28 March 2011
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In a new scientific study conducted by Canadian researchers, it was discovered that seniors who have a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease can avoid the onset of the condition for a prolonged period of time by training their brains to rewire themselves. This also helps keep memory loss to a minimum.Expe... |
24 March 2011
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In a new scientific study, it was demonstrated that none of the existing tests can be entirely accurate in determining the cognitive state of a patient, regardless of the severity of their neural injuries. The investigation was conducted on six individuals, who suffered from a variety of impairments at a cognitive le... |
28 February 2011
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers learned that it is possible to determine a person's chances of actually giving up smoking by looking at their brain with advanced brain-imaging technologies.
Apparently, neural patterns developing in the brain as a response to cues related to quitting the habit ... |
1 February 2011
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A collaboration of researchers from American universities is currently taking a new approach towards deciphering the interactions that occur between nerve cells in the human brain called neurons. Scientists have been trying to produce a map of the brain for years, but this is a tremendously complex task, and one that... |
28 January 2011
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A group of investigators in Japan announces a new series of discoveries they made on the origins of expert intuition, which could change the way we look at the human brain. The research team was basically able to identify the neural basis that underlie this ability.
Experts with the RIKEN Brain Science Institute ... |
21 January 2011
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers demonstrate that smokers who see actors light up their cigarettes on the screen during movies are very tempted to do so themselves. The discovery was made by using a brain-imaging technique on regular smokers who watched movies depicting the habit. According to the res... |
19 January 2011
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According to a new scientific study published in the latest online issue of the journal NeuroImage, it would appear that enjoying art makes the brain experience a feeling of reward. The paper also shows that artists can make the cortical reward system work a lot harder than simple images of objects can.Admiring the w... |
10 January 2011
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Using advanced medical imaging techniques, a team of researchers was able to determine how musical performances, and various elements therein, trigger the expression of emotions in the human brain.More precisely, the investigators looked at how emotion-related activity patterns fired up in the cortex, in response to ... |
21 December 2010
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An international team of researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to discover the effects of acupuncture on the brain's perception and processing of the pain, and they concluded that acupuncture is effective in relieving pain.Thanks to the fMRI, they obtained pictures of the brain, while patients e... |
30 November 2010
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Researchers announce the creation of a new approach to training one's brain, which could in the future be used as a method of helping drug addicts and alcoholics control their cravings, but also for more general applications as well.The technique relies on producing, analyzing and interpreting brain scans that a... |
23 November 2010
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A team of experts from the UK has recently developed a groundbreaking development of an established brain imaging technology, that may enable healthcare experts to communicate with brain dead patients.The team that achieved this remarkable result is based at the Cambridge University, and is led by expert Adrian Owen.... |
21 September 2010
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Loosing the proverbial keys may in the new future become a thing of the past, researchers say, if the efforts of a research team succeed. The experts are working on reducing the incidence of memory problems, analysts reveal. The new work could also address other common issues related to this aspect, such as for examp... |
13 September 2010
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A team of investigators managed to use an established form of brain imaging to produce maps of how neural networks change and evolve in the human brain over a period of time.Mapping out these complex interactions was no easy task, but determining this data was of the utmost importance. The study was mostly conducted ... |
10 September 2010
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When having a conversation with someone, understanding what he or she is trying to say is obviously the most important factor. But some are capable of “getting” what the other is trying to say a lot faster than others can, and researchers now propose that this difference is caused by the way our brains co... |
27 July 2010
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In an attempt that could have massive repercussions for both the legal system of the United States and the field of neuroscience, an attorney from Brooklyn plans to introduce brain scans as evidence that a witness is being truthful. The trial is scheduled to take place this week and, if admitted, the scans would repr... |
5 May 2010
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Pain is something that has for a long time been associated with external stimuli. Usually, sticks and stones do cause pain, while other times people's feelings cause the same effect, only on the inside. But while these situations have been carefully investigated before, one area of pain study has remained largel... |
6 April 2010
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When a stroke happens, the person suffering from it experiences a momentary starvation of blood in a region of the brain. The affected area, regardless of location, experiences the full force of the blow, but new studies have revealed that other portions of the cortex are also severely affected. Now, scientists plan ... |
29 March 2010
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For many years, experts have argued that the brain is the final frontier in advertising. There are many types of ads in circulation today, and almost all angles of approach have been exhausted. Some companies have turned to placing video cameras on billboards. These machines see what people stop in front of the ads, ... |
18 March 2010
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Experts investigating the way in which our brain forms, stores and recalls memory were recently able to demonstrate through imaging techniques that these events leave a trace in the cortex. The real finding is that this trace can be viewed with existing equipment. The discovery could lead to a better understanding of... |
12 March 2010
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For nearly two decades, the federal government of the United States has refused to even consider the fact that the Gulf War Syndrome may be an actual disease. Veterans returning from the first fight against Saddam Hussein's forces started complaining of a host of symptoms that became apparent as they retired fro... |
11 March 2010
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Neuroscientists have finally been able to identify the location of the “fairness center” of the human brain. This is the region that makes us scream “It's not fair!” whenever we meet with a situation that we deem to be arbitrarily disadvantageous to one of the parties involved. The situat... |
25 February 2010
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Previous studies have shown that a large majority of people that look in the mirror and don't like what they see actually suffer from a condition known as body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). This disease is characterized by the fact that those suffering from it tend to be unable to focus on their face as a whole, an... |
2 February 2010
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Scientists using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) on the human brain have determined that the human brain is perfectly capable of differentiating between artificial sweeteners and sugar. This also holds true when the conscious mind is unaware of the difference. Over the past few years, manufacturers have ... |
28 December 2009
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Over the past couple of years, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become one of the most impressive brain-imaging methods available. The technique has the ability to observe the changes that take place in the brain of a person in real-time. It can notice which portions of the cortex are active, as well ... |
4 December 2009
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