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A group of investigators at the University of California in Davis (UCD) announces the discovery of a series of mechanisms that allows our brains to remain alert, by adapting itself to cues our environment throws at us.
These cues include natural events, social situations, language, emotions experienced by others an... |
13 January 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Endorphins are a class of neurotransmitters made up of endogenous opioid peptides that act directly on areas of the brain that are responsible for making us feel pleasure and rewards. Whenever we consume alcohol, these areas light up on brain scans, demonstrating increased activity. This finding is very important to... |
13 January 2012
03:33 GMT |
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Investigators at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor say that an analysis of positron-emission tomography (PET) scans taken over the past 10 years recently revealed the approach to be very safe and accurate in discovering dementia affecting the human brain.
As an added bonus, PET scans also proved to be tremen... |
7 January 2012
06:28 GMT |
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Investigators from the UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC) say that people who suffer from depression tend to exhibit lower-than-average levels of vitamin D, suggesting a potential connection between the two. Such a potential link is definitely worth investigating.
The study adds an interesting perspective to a b... |
6 January 2012
10:10 GMT |
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University of Washington investigators say that humans and rats are two species in which structural changes affecting the brain can lead to the development of obesity. As such, the unsuspecting rodents are used as a proxy for humans, with researchers trying to figure out how to stop the condition.
The situation nowa... |
3 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says that it was recently able to identify which parts of a specific brain area are face-selective. That a region called the fusiform gyrus played a role in this was known for a long time, but which parts of it were involved in the process re... |
3 January 2012
06:02 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study conducted by investigators at the Tel Aviv University, it would appear that glial cells in the human brain play an important role in allowing us to adapt, learn and store information. The exact role that glial cells play has been a matter of great controversy amo... |
30 December 2011
06:00 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that the brains of seniors are just as capable of performing certain mental tasks as the young brain. This is not the case for all types of tasks, of course, but even so, the finding puts a dent in previous theories on the issue.
For many ye... |
28 December 2011
05:53 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth) say that sea snails and humans are actually pretty similar when it comes to studies dealing with memories. A new research carried out by the team reveals a new way of boosting memory, which was inspired by the mollusks.
The work has ... |
27 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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In a new study, investigators from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, managed to determine the specific brain abnormality that underlies the development of dyslexia. The team learned that auditory signal processing pathways display a glitch that is the most likely cause of the condition. The findings are... |
23 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that children are perfectly capable of remembering that an object existed, even if they don't see it anymore. They cannot remember details on an object that was hidden from view, but they do know that it still exists.
This is an interes... |
20 December 2011
10:16 GMT |
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Investigators from the Boston University (BU) and the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, in Kyoto, Japan, say that it may be possible to soon use a new technology for boosting visual perceptual learning, or even healing mental damage.
This could be done with little or no conscious effort on the part of th... |
9 December 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Vanderbilt University investigators say in a new study that consuming the drug ecstasy – also called methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA – can lead to significant changes in the brain, including a chronic loss of the key neurotransmitter serotonin.
The chemical is largely responsible for our feelings ... |
8 December 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Since an early age, women are exposed to the idea that their spatial skills are inferior to those of men, and in many instances there are. But that doesn't mean that the situation cannot be addressed. A new study shows this can be achieved by boosting women's confidence in themselves.
A healthy dose of co... |
7 December 2011
08:22 GMT |
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One of the things that everyone learns from childhood is that all sense contribute to our overall perception of the environment. The question that has been bugging researchers is how this is happening in the brain. A new study proposes a series of explanations for these phenomena.
Things are especially complex whe... |
5 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the University of Hull say that people who are susceptible to hypnosis are also more likely to hallucinate colors in situations where there are none. The team conducted a new series of experiments on the topic, which also included people less likely to be hypnotized.
Participants were as... |
5 December 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Anecdotal wisdom has been proposing that eating fish helps protect the body by providing it with vitamins and other healthy elements. Now, a scientific research demonstrates that people who eat more baked or broiled fish are at a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
This investigation was able to deter... |
1 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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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
10:03 GMT |
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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
10:45 GMT |
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A team of experts based at the University of Michigan (U-M) argues that a new study carried out on lab rats has finally revealed the neural pathways fear uses to return to the brain, even after having been suppressed through behavioral approaches.
The reason why this study is important is that all behavioral therap... |
28 November 2011
09:58 GMT |
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A paper published in the latest online issue of the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE shows that exposure to background noises makes it very difficult for people suffering from dyslexia to read.
At least part of the condition is caused by the fact that individuals who have it are always exposed to at least some outside... |
28 November 2011
08:53 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, and the Florey Neuroscience Institute in Melbourne, Australia, announces the discovery of a section of the nervous system that is responsible for underlying the link between the heart and the brain.
Any sort of glitches affecting this par... |
28 November 2011
08:21 GMT |
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University of Arizona Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences assistant professor Stephen Wilson recently managed to figure out in a new study that white brain matter plays a huge role in underlying the way the brain understands language.
White matter pathways have largely gone by ignored by researchers... |
28 November 2011
03:42 GMT |
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Investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) discovered in a new study that psychopaths display brain structures that are observably different from those of normal people.
Experts showed that an area of the brain involved in underlying feelings such as guilt and sympathy, called the ventromedial prefr... |
25 November 2011
10:59 GMT |
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In a new study conducted on lab mice that were prone to becoming obese, researchers learned that transplanting immature nerve cells called neurons into the rodents' brains prevented the development of this dangerous condition.
The investigation could have significant applications in reducing obesity throughout ... |
25 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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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
05:21 GMT |
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One of the most difficult issues to resolve when it came to constructing an artificial replica of the human brain was that of neural plasticity. This obstacle has now been surpassed, thanks to the work of investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge.
What the group was particularl... |
15 November 2011
08:34 GMT |
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People who are capable of remembering most of the things that happened to them throughout their lives in detail may be able to do so thanks to the fact that certain regions of their brains are significantly more developed than normal.
According to a team of scientists, these individuals are able to recall so many d... |
14 November 2011
05:06 GMT |
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For people suffering from diverse conditions – including addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias – could potentially benefit from the results of a new study. Researchers have shown that behaviors associated with a stimulus can be changed in a very simple way.
All healthcare experts need t... |
7 November 2011
09:33 GMT |
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One of the things that always separates an addict from a normal person is the fact that they will repeatedly choose the behavior or substance that's got them hooked up despite being fully aware of the risks involved in doing this. A new study recently revealed the brain areas responsible for this behavior. Som... |
31 October 2011
03:46 GMT |
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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
16:01 GMT |
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In a paper published in the October 27 issue of the top scientific journal Nature, researchers present findings which support the idea that the human brain continues to remodel itself throughout life, in predictable patterns that could theoretically be steered in one direction or another.
The two research papers th... |
28 October 2011
10:44 GMT |
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In a paper published in a recent issue of the top scientific journal Nature, investigators at the Yale University detail how they were able to create the most exquisite map of neural connections at various stages of human development.
The research was focused on studying how the human brain evolves before birth. In... |
27 October 2011
10:55 GMT |
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In a paper published in the October 25 issue of the medical Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of Bristol, in the UK, say that cannabis has been demonstrated to cause adverse side-effects on concentration and memory in humans.
After the plant is used, brain activity in areas where these traits a... |
26 October 2011
03:58 GMT |
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Women who have just given birth to their children undergo a wide variety of alterations in their brain functions, which is the main mechanism through which instinctive mothering behaviors develop. The conclusion belongs to a new study published by experts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The changes in brain f... |
25 October 2011
09:29 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers coordinated by investigators at the Scripps Research Institute (SRI) recently uncovered a new approach to addressing brain inflammation. Their method does not cause the type of side-effects that drugs such as ibuprofen do.
The approach relies on blocking the action of a single enzyme,... |
21 October 2011
06:41 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) investigators say that the brains of autistic children do not develop as fast and as efficiently as the brains of healthy kids of comparable age and status.
This discovery potentially indicates new avenues of research when it comes to understanding autism, and developi... |
21 October 2011
05:57 GMT |
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The human brain is known to take deep pleasure from caresses. Researchers can notice it light up when one person in a couple is touched by the other. A team of Swedish investigators has now determined that the reaction also ensues when people view others being caressed.Until now, experts had no idea that such a stron... |
19 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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In a research paper published in the Association for Psychological Science's (APS) journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, scientists explain that, under certain conditions, forgetting things may in fact augment memory as a whole, rather than hamper it. Forgetfulness is an often-overlooked component... |
19 October 2011
09:38 GMT |
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In a new study, a team of German investigators established that the brain activity patterns of teens who play a lot of violent and aggressive video games are very different from similar patterns recorded in gamers who do not play first person shooters. University of Bonn researchers say that this significant differen... |
18 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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While being an optimist has numerous advantages, such as for instance improving health and reducing stress, it also has its drawbacks. In a new study, researchers focused on understanding why some people remain optimistic even in the face of unsurmountable odds.
The team discovered that the brains of the overly-o... |
10 October 2011
09:17 GMT |
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Scientists with the University of Leicester, in the United Kingdom, say they've made an important discovery while analyzing the code on which the human brain operates – a new, key actor involved in determining how the cortex deals with, and mitigates for, daily stress. In modern societies, stress is ever-p... |
4 October 2011
11:13 GMT |
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Scientists have determined that people who believe they can learn from a mistake they've just made exhibit a different neural activation pattern in their brains than individuals who believe that no new knowledge can be extracted from current occurrences.
The former group is capable of recovering from mistake... |
3 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A group of US researchers was recently able to discover a new type of response to human faces that forms in the human brain when individuals see other people's face. This response was not analyzed before, and researchers say that these results may lead to a better understanding of the brain.
Analyzing the way... |
30 September 2011
09:14 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that low concentrations of vitamin B12 in the human brain may be directly responsible for a decrease in memory efficiency, as well as other types of cognitive declines. As such, the vitamin may be related to the onset of dementia.
Given the hi... |
27 September 2011
06:23 GMT |
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New evidence appears to support theories suggesting that the human brain – with is ability to create new things, invent and reinvent itself – appeared no later than 75,000 years ago, in a sudden event. A new study is bound to reignite the scientific debate already raging on on this issue.
At first, th... |
26 September 2011
05:06 GMT |
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Though past studies seemed to suggest otherwise, a collaboration of investigators determined in a recent research that the human brain indeed continues to develop well into a person's 20s. Until now, scientists widely believed that significant development stopped in adolescence.
This groundbreaking study &nda... |
23 September 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Investigators at the Brown University are hard at work in developing new approaches to healing damage caused in the human brain by adverse events such as injuries and stroke. They received a grant to finance their research less than a year ago, and they are already making important progress.
The university receive... |
19 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Determining how our brains function – and how neurons and cortical regions interact – while we are making decisions has been a long-term goal for neuroscientists. Currently, thanks to advanced imaging technologies, experts are making constant and considerable progress.
One of the most interesting direc... |
19 September 2011
04:15 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that studies conducted on the effects that the chemical steroid cholesterol has on the brain have revealed a potential role for it in the fight against highly-aggressive forms of brain cancer, such as glioblastomas.
Investigators h... |
16 September 2011
06:02 GMT |
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