From the University of Kansas press release: College students across the country struggle with a vicious cycle: Test anxiety triggers poor sleep, which in turn reduces performance on the tests that caused the anxiety in…
From the University of Birmingham press release: What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories over the years, and now a…
From the Michigan State University press release: Rough night of sleep? Relying on caffeine to get you through the day isn’t always the answer, says a new study from Michigan State University. Researchers from MSU’s…
From the University of Birmingham press release: While we sleep, the brain produces particular activation patterns. When two of these patterns — slow oscillations and sleep spindles — gear into each other, previous experiences are…
From the American Heart Association press release: Adults who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were more than three times as likely to have an ischemic stroke later in life compared to adults who do not have…
From the Cell Press press release: A common factor called “decision acuity” underpins diverse decision-making abilities in adolescents and young adults, suggests a study appearing May 20th in the journal Neuron. A large set of behavioral…
From the University of Colorado at Boulder press release: Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person’s risk of major depression by 23%, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published May 26 in…
From the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience press release: Has your heart ever started to race at the thought of an upcoming deadline for work? Or has the sight of an unknown object in…
From the Yale University press release: One trait shared by all humans is that they don’t remember specific life episodes that occurred before the age of 3 or 4. Many scientists have attributed this so-called…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: When a person views a familiar image, even having seen it just once before for a few seconds, something unique happens in the human brain. Until recently, neuroscientists…