From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release via MedicalXpress: Locating a car that’s blowing its horn in heavy traffic, channel-hopping between football and a thriller on TV without losing the plot, and not forgetting the start of…
From the Virginia Tech press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have discovered a pathway by which the brain controls a molecule critical to forming long-term memories and connected with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The discovery was…
From the Ohio State University press release via EurekAlert!: A new study has found that chasing down a moving object is not only a matter of sight or of sound, but of mind. The study…
From the University of Utah press release via EurekAlert!: Using hands-free devices to talk, text or send e-mail while driving is distracting and risky, contrary to what many people believe, says a new University of…
From the Endocrine Society press release via EurekAlert!: Memory improves in older, overweight women after they lose weight by dieting, and their brain activity actually changes in the regions of the brain that are important…
From the McGill press release via HealthCanal: A new study shows compelling evidence that associations between cognitive ability and cortical grey matter in old age can largely be accounted for by cognitive ability in childhood. …
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: People who experience any stroke symptoms—but do not have a stroke—may also be more likely to develop problems with memory and thinking, according to new…
From the Kessler Foundation press release via EurekAlert!: U.S. and Italian researchers have determined that brain reserve, as well as cognitive reserve, independently protects against cognitive decline in multiple sclerosis (MS). Their article, “Brain reserve…
From the University of Florida press release via ScienceDaily: A new University of Florida study suggests a promising brain-imaging technique has the potential to improve diagnoses for the millions of people with movement disorders such…
From the Aarhus University press release via EurekAlert!: New research shows that every third person who is diagnosed for the first time with a mood disorder has been admitted to hospital with an infection prior…