From the University of Colorado at Boulder press release: Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns…
From the New York University press release: The “loudness” of our thoughts — or how we imagine saying something — influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds, a team of researchers from…
From the University of Tampere press release: In a new study from the University of Tampere in Finland, nasally administered oxytocin spray strengthened brain responses to pictures of infant and adult faces in mothers of…
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: Primary schoolchildren who have been raised in homes surrounded by more greenspace tend to present with larger volumes of white and grey matter in certain…
From the Åbo Akademi University press release: Acquisition and active use of two languages have been suggested to train executive functions in the brain, such as focusing one’s attention, suppressing interference from the environment, and…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release: The debate in sleep science has gone on for a generation. People and other animals sicken and die if they are deprived of sleep, but why is sleep…
From the Texas A&M University press release: Steve Maren, the Claude H. Everett Jr. ’47 Chair of Liberal Arts professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, and his Emotion…
From the NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine press release: High-tech scans of the resting human brain can provide a new way to define and interpret the brain’s actual mental capacity, new research…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: Even though you are not aware of it, your eyes play a role in searing an image into your brain, long after you have stopped looking…
From the University of Iowa press release: Imagine reaching to pet your cat, and it hisses at you. How does your brain take stock of the sound and communicate with your body to pull back…