From the Emory University press release by Quinn Eastman via ScienceDaily: People with Parkinson’s disease performed markedly better on a test of working memory after a night’s sleep, and sleep disorders can interfere with that…
From the Georgia State University press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at Georgia State University have found that the ability to hear is lessened when, as a result of injury, a region of the brain responsible…
From the University of Houston press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at the University of Houston (UH) have discovered what may possibly be a key ingredient in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. Affecting more than 500,000…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Managers and non-managers show distinctly different brain activation patterns when making decisions, according to research published Aug. 22 in the open access journal PLOS ONE.…
From the University of Iowa press release via EurekAlert!: Ancient Greek philosophers considered the ability to “know thyself” as the pinnacle of humanity. Now, thousands of years later, neuroscientists are trying to decipher precisely how…
From the NYU press release via EurekAlert!: Preemptive cognitive training—an early intervention to address neuropsychiatric deficiencies—can help the brain function normally later in life, a team of researchers has found through a series of experiments…
From the UC Berkeley press release via EurekAlert!: Intensive preparation for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) actually changes the microscopic structure of the brain, physically bolstering the connections between areas of the brain important…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Animals that literally have holes in their brains can go on to behave as normal adults if they’ve had the benefit of a little cognitive training in…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists at UCLA and the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, have unraveled how our brain cells encode the pronunciation of individual vowels in speech. Published in the Aug.…
From the University of Washington press release via EurekAlert!: A low dose of the sedative clonazepam alleviated autistic-like behavior in mice with a mutation that causes Dravet syndrome in humans, University of Washington researchers have…