From the UT Southwestern Medical Center press release: Scientists have identified more than 100 genes linked to memory, opening new avenues of research to better understand memory processing in the human brain. A study at the…
From the University College London press release: UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something, by studying how user reviews on Amazon influence how…
From the Canadian Association for Neuroscience press release: We all want to improve our memory, but research unveiled by the University of Toronto’s Dr. Katherine Duncan today shows that we need to switch our strategies. Memory…
From the Loyola University Health System press release: A Loyola University Chicago study has found that abnormal proteins found in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease all share a similar ability to cause damage when…
From the University of Western Ontario press release: New Western University research shows that neurons in the part of the brain found to be abnormal in psychosis are also important in helping people distinguish between reality…
From the University of Turku press release: Finnish and British researchers have revealed how laughter releases endorphins in the human brain. The more opioid receptors the participants had in their brain, the more they laughed…
From the Emory Health Sciences press release: A team of neuroscientists from Emory University’s Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition has discovered a key connection between areas of the adult female prairie…
From the University of California – Berkeley press release: A University of California, Berkeley, study of mice reveals, for the first time, how puberty hormones might impede some aspects of flexible youthful learning. “We have found…
From the Cell Press press release: When you look at photos of faces, your brain is able to instantly identify the ones that you know–whether they’re your mother or your favorite celebrity–and distinguish among those…
From the Kyoto University press release: Scanning your brain to decode the contents of your mind has been a subject of intense research interest for some time. As studies have progressed, scientists have gradually been…