From the New York University media release: The capacity of our working memory is better explained by the quality of memories we can store than by their number, a team of psychology researchers has concluded.…
From the IOS Press media release: There is a growing need for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) due to the huge influx of soldiers returning from war zones with brain injuries, athletes with sports-related head injuries,…
From the USF Health media release: Declines in the underlying brain skills needed to think, remember, and learn are normal in aging. In fact, this cognitive decline is a fact of life for most older…
From the University of Helsinki media release: Difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking, poor quality of sleep and a variety of sleep-related breathing problems are very common — they afflict approximately a third of the population.…
From the University of Washington media release: One might think that after years of seeing people at their worst, mental health workers would harbor negative attitudes about mental illness, perhaps associating people with mental health…
From the King’s College London media release: Researchers at King’s College London have discovered that sensitivity to pain could be altered by a person’s lifestyle and environment throughout their lifetime. The study is the first…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine media release: Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb…
From the Basque Research media release: Justice blindly trusts human memory. Every year throughout the world hundreds of thousands of court cases are heard based solely on the testimony of somebody who swears that they…
From the Oregon Health & Science University media release: Monkeys that ate a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids had brains with highly connected and well organized neural networks — in some ways akin to…
From the University of Maryland media release: Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that others cannot. Researchers have long known that very…