From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Physical manifestations of negative memories in the hippocampus could underlie cognitive symptoms of depression, according to research in mice published in JNeurosci. Inhibiting these manifestations could be a future…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: The brain has a knack for safekeeping our most treasured memories, from a first kiss to a child’s birth. In a new study in mouse cells,…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what they need to know at a given time,…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin using magnetic resonance imaging. “Although…
From the National Research University Higher School of Economics press release: When reading words on a screen, the human brain comprehends words placed on the right side of the screen faster. The total amount of…
From the Cell Press press release: After patient RDS (identified only by his initials for privacy) suffered a stroke, he experienced a rare and unusual side effect: when he saw something red, blue, green, or…
From the Kessler Foundation press release: Kessler Foundation researchers have found a correlation between deficits in facial emotion recognition and poor community integration in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Their findings have…
From the California Institute of Technology press release: Why is it that you can remember the name of your childhood best friend that you haven’t seen in years yet easily forget the name of a…
From the Ruhr-Universität Bochum press release: Spatial navigation is an essential cognitive function, which is frequently impaired in patients suffering from neurological and psychiatric disorders. Research groups worldwide have studied the neuronal basis of spatial…
From the Boston University press release: What if scientists could manipulate your brain so that a traumatic memory lost its emotional power over your psyche? Steve Ramirez, a Boston University neuroscientist fascinated by memory, believes…