From the Flinders University media release: There’s a common perception that autistic individuals are poor at recognising others’ emotions and have little insight into how effectively they do so. Study co-author and Matthew Flinders Distinguished…
From the American Academy of Neurology media release: Why do some people with amyloid plaques in their brains associated with Alzheimer’s disease show no signs of the disease, while others with the same amount of…
From the University of Tokyo media release: A systematic review of 301 academic articles on “cultural ecosystem services” has enabled researchers to identify how these nonmaterial contributions from nature are linked to and significantly affect…
From the The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine media release: Mount Sinai researchers have achieved an unprecedented understanding of the genetic and molecular machinery in human microglia — immune cells that…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics media release: Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone — it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening…
From the NIH/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research news release: An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings, which could inform development of…
From the Tulane University media release: Experiencing a frightening event is likely something you’ll never forget. But why does it stay with you when other kinds of occurrences become increasingly difficult to recall with the…
From the Columbia University Irving Medical Center press release: Legend has it that Marie Antoinette’s hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate — hair that has already…
From the University of Massachusetts Amherst press release: A scientific team has shown that the release of neurotransmitters in the brain is impaired in patients with schizophrenia who have a rare, single-gene mutation known to…
From the University of Helsinki press release: Research has shown that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon have so far…