From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release via MedicalXpress: Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified for the first time a pattern of brain activity that appears to…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: New findings led by Dr. Michael Lombardo, Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen and colleagues at the University of Cambridge indicate that testosterone levels early in fetal development influence later sensitivity…
From the Weizmann Institute of Science press release: Rats use a sense that humans don’t: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment.…
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…