From the Yale University press release by Bill Hathaway: When it comes to addiction, sex matters. A new brain imaging study by Yale School of Medicine researchers suggests stress robustly activates areas of the brain…
From the Stowers Institute for Medical Research press release: Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called “synapses”. But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? Neuroscientists…
From the Temple University press release: A protein recently discovered in the brain could play a key role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of…
From the Max Planck Institute press release: The brain is a fantastically complex and mysterious device, too large and with too many internal connections to be entirely programmable genetically. Its internal connectivity must therefore self-organize,…
From the Elsevier press release: A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: The eyes are the window into the soul—or at least the mind, according to a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the…
From the Cell Press press release via AlphaGalileo: In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them.…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists now have a better understanding of the way that stress impacts the brain. New research, published by Cell Press in the January 26 issue of the…
From the Princeton University press release by Morgan Kelly: A hallmark of the individual is the cultivation of personal interests, but for some people, their intellectual pursuits might actually be genetically predetermined. Survey results published…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist because his amygdala activated –…