From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics press release: Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be specified in our genes. A kind of…
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and…
From the North Carolina State University press release: A recent analysis of research into how so-called “sexting” may affect sexual behavior finds that it has little impact on sexual activity — but highlights significant shortcomings…
From the Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan press release: Most people know that regular exercise can keep a body looking and feeling young. What about the brain? “There has been a wealth of evidence from…
From the Rice University press release: Educational attainment is a national priority because it creates both economic and personal gains: higher incomes, better individual and family health and deeper civic engagement. U.S. college enrollments are…
From the University of Zürich press release: If the mother is stressed over a longer period of time during pregnancy, the concentration of stress hormones in amniotic fluid rises, as proven by an interdisciplinary team of…
From the University of Waterloo press release: The closer you feel to your actual age, the less likely you are to be satisfied with your sex life, a University of Waterloo study has found. The…
From the McGill University press release: Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Exposure to high-fat diet from childhood may increase the sensitivity of the dopamine system later in adulthood, according to a study in male rats published in eNeuro. The research…
From the University of Zürich press release: For the first time, researchers of the University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have demonstrated the causal context of why deep sleep is…