From the University of Kent press release: New research led by the University of Kent shows that popular mobile phone games could provide a new tool to help doctors spot early signs of cognitive decline,…
From the Cell Press press release: You’d expect excessive athletic training to make the body tired, but can it make the brain tired too? A new study reported in the journal Current Biology on September 26 suggests…
From the Technical University of Munich (TUM) press release: Success is no accident: To reach your goal you need perseverance. But where does the motivation come from? An international team of researchers led by scientists…
From the Dartmouth College press release: A new Dartmouth study on how we use reward information for making choices shows how humans and monkeys adopt their decision-making strategies depending on the uncertainty of information present.…
From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: In a large study, German scientists have shown that physical fitness is associated with better brain structure and brain functioning in young adults. This opens the possibility…
From the Yale University press release: Much research has pointed to how an unhealthy diet correlates to obesity, but has not explored how diet can bring about neurological changes in the brain. A recent Yale…
From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: Scientists have used MRI scanners to discover the parts of the brain which understand metaphors, in both healthy volunteers and people with schizophrenia. They found that people…
From the University of Michigan press release: When fruit flies are exposed to a high sugar diet, key metabolites associated with brain health become depleted, according to a University of Michigan study. This finding could…
From the Université de Genève press release: When two identical sounds are repeated quickly, a filter reduces the attention that the brain directs to the second sound it hears. In people with schizophrenia, this ability…
From the University of California – San Diego press release: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) begins to alter and damage the brain years — even decades — before symptoms appear, making early identification of AD risk paramount…