From the Association for Psychological Science press release via HealthCanal: You push a button to call the elevator to your floor and you wait for what seems like forever, thinking it must be broken. When…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release via EurekAlert!: The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via ScienceDaily: Negatively framed political attitudes (“I don’t like Romney”) are stronger than positively framed attitudes (“I like Romney”), and this effect is strengthened when people think…
From the Mount Sinai Hospital press release via EurekAlert: New research presented in October at the 6th Neurodegenerative Conditions Research and Development Conference in San Francisco demonstrates the role of the investigational compound IRX4204 in…
From the University of Pittsburgh press release: While Omega-3 essential fatty acids—found in foods like wild fish and grass-fed livestock—are necessary for human body functioning, their effects on the working memory of healthy young adults…
From the UC Irvine press release via HealthCanal: Poor physical performance on activities such as walking was associated with increased odds of dementia in a survey of individuals 90 and older, according to UC Irvine…
From the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology press release via AlphaGalileo: Neurobiologists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna investigated how the brain is able to group external stimuli into stable categories.…
From the Journal of Consumer Research press release via ScienceDaily: Consumers are more likely to remember an ad they’ve seen repeatedly if one element in the ad changes location from one exposure to the next,…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release by Julia Evangelou Strait via ScienceDaily: Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a key difference in the brains of people…
From the University of Edinburgh press release via EurekAlert!: People who exercise later in life may better protect their brain from age-related changes than those who do not, a study suggests. Researchers found that people…