From the Association for Psychological Science press release: You’re waiting in the reception area of your doctor’s office. The magazines are uninteresting. The pictures on the wall are dull. The second hand on the wall…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: The hippocampus represents an important brain structure for learning. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich discovered how it filters electrical neuronal signals through an input and…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken one of the first detailed looks into how Alzheimer’s disease disrupts coordination among several…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Spending too much time looking at high heels may influence how a viewer perceives the gender of an androgynous face, according to new research published…
From the Dartmouth College press release via EurekAlert!: Most people equate “gray matter” with the brain and its higher functions, such as sensation and perception, but this is only one part of the anatomical puzzle…
From the Cornell University press release via EurekAlert!: For more than 50 years, language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts in turn made of smaller parts, like…
From the Georgia Tech press release: Researchers in Georgia Tech’s Center for Behavior Imaging have developed two new technological tools that automatically measure relevant behaviors of children, and promise to have significant impact on the…
From the George Washington University press release: Research comparing brain development in humans and our closest nonhuman primate relatives, chimpanzees, reveals how quickly myelin in the cerebral cortex grows, shedding light on the evolution of…
From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press release via EurekAlert!: A team of neuroscientists and chemists from the U.S. and China today publish research suggesting that a class of currently used anti-cancer drugs as well…
From the Norwegian Institute of Public Health press release via EurekAlert!: A new twin study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shows that the heritability of avoidant and dependent personality disorder traits might be…