From the American Academy of Neurology press release via MedicalXpress: New research suggests that, in people who don’t currently have memory problems, those with smaller regions of the brain’s cortex… Read more »
From the UCLA press release: At UCLA’s Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, researchers use functional MRI brain scans to observe brain signal changes that take place during mental activity. They… Read more »
From the British Medical Journal press release via EurekAlert: “Mindfulness” exercises, which focus on experiencing the present moment, no matter how difficult, can help curb the stress and fatigue associated… Read more »
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: Fifteen years ago, textbooks on human development stated that babies 6 months of age or younger had no sense of “object permanence” –… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: We know a lot about the links between a pregnant mother’s health, behavior, and moods and her baby’s cognitive and psychological development… Read more »
From the AFTAU press release: Anxious people have long been classified as “hypersensitive” — they’re thought to be more fearful and feel threatened more easily than their counterparts. But new… Read more »
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: In order to get a better picture of our surroundings, the brain has to integrate information from different senses, but how does it know which… Read more »
From the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology press release via ScienceDirect: Short-term memory plays a crucial role in how our consciousness operates. Several years ago a hypothesis has been formulated,… Read more »
From the Leiden University press release via ScienceDirect: Is attention in women different from attention in men? Leiden researchers and their colleagues in Toronto investigated the effects of the hormone… Read more »
From the Concordia University press release: First dates, job interviews or Christmas cocktail parties can be stressors for some people. Such social rites of passage have no doubt made shy… Read more »
