From the Duke University Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: Recent combat veterans who are diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder have significantly smaller volume in an area of the brain critical for regulating fear…
From the IOS Press press release via EurekAlert!: Over the last 15 years, researchers have found a significant association between vascular diseases such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes type 2, hyperlipidemia, and heart disease and an…
From the National Institutes of Health press release via MedicalXpress: The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the…
From the Swinburne University of Technology press release via MedicalXpress: A daily multivitamin supplement may improve brain efficiency in older women, according to new research from Swinburne University of Technology. Centre for Human Psychopharmacology researcher…
From the University of Virginia press release via ScienceDaily: Vision may be less important to “seeing” than is the brain’s ability to process points of light into complex images, according to a new study of…
From the UC Davis Health System press release via ScienceDaily: Uncontrolled high blood pressure damages the brain’s structure and function as early as young middle-age, and even the brains of middle-aged people who clinically would…
From the University of Chicago press release by William Harms via ScienceDaily: Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the…
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via ScienceDaily: Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: New research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre. Mounya Elhilali, of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues have…
From the Royal Society press release via MedicalXpress: New research published in Biology Letters today shows that humans are biased to look at eyes… even those of headless monsters! The findings from the universities of…