From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: Even though you are not aware of it, your eyes play a role in searing an image into your brain, long after you have stopped looking…
From the University of Iowa press release: Imagine reaching to pet your cat, and it hisses at you. How does your brain take stock of the sound and communicate with your body to pull back…
From the University of Colorado at Boulder press release: Childhood play experiences strongly shape a person’s spatial skills, according to a new CIRES-led study — those skills can be critical to success in fields like…
From the American Society of Nephrology press release: A new study has found that lower level of sodium in the blood — known as hyponatremia — is linked with declines in cognitive function with advancing…
From the University of Kansas press release: Echoing concerns that grew with the World Wide Web itself a decade earlier, the rise of social media has stoked fears of “social displacement” — the alienation of…
From the University of California – Irvine press release: Aging or impaired brains can once again form lasting memories if an enzyme that applies the brakes too hard on a key gene is lifted, according…
From the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences press release: Whether children think their peers’ intentions are benign or hostile, and how those children experience and express their own emotions, may…
From the Technische Universität Darmstadt press release: If a brief event in our surroundings is about to happen it is probably better not to blink during that moment. A team of researchers at the Centre…
From the Brigham Young University press release: Most people agree that getting a little exercise helps when dealing with stress. A new BYU study discovers exercise — particularly running — while under stress also helps…
From the Elsevier press release: A new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that processing of negative emotion can be strengthened or weakened by tuning the excitability of the right frontal part of…