From the University of Nevada, Reno press release: Does having the potential to act upon an object have a unique influence on behavior and brain responses to the object? That is the question Jacqueline Snow,…
From the Wiley press release: A new Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology study in mice found that mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) can precipitate not only acute damage but also a lifelong degenerative process. At 24…
From the Lancaster University press release: Ten-week-old babies can learn from practising walking months before they begin walking themselves say researchers. They gave the infants experience at “reflex walking” which is a primitive instinct in…
From the Boston Children’s Hospital press release: Scientists have wondered whether somatic (non-inherited) mutations play a role in aging and brain degeneration, but until recently there was no good technology to test this idea. A…
From the Baylor University press release: Supervisors who cannot tear themselves away from their smartphones while meeting with employees risk losing their employees’ trust and, ultimately, their engagement, according to new research from Baylor University’s…
From the University of California – Berkeley press release: Like swinging a tennis racket during a ball toss to serve an ace, slow and speedy brainwaves during deep sleep must sync up at exactly the…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: Cracking the German Enigma code is considered to be one of the decisive factors that hastened Allied victory in World War II. Starting with clues derived from espionage,…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release: Scientists at Johns Hopkins have used supercomputers to create an atomic scale map that tracks how the signaling chemical glutamate binds to a neuron in the brain. The…
From the Oregon State University press release: Adding a daily 20 to 30 minute self-regulation intervention to a kindergarten readiness program significantly boosted children’s self-regulation and early academic skills, an Oregon State University researcher has…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: One per cent of adults and five per cent of children are unable to achieve what most of us take for granted…