Brain development and aging
From the University of Miami press release: The brain is a complex organ — a network of nerve cells, or neurons, producing thought, memory, action, and feeling. How does this complex system change from childhood…
Scientists improve people’s creativity through electrical brain stimulation
From the Queen Mary University of London press release: Scientists have found a way to improve creativity through brain stimulation, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Goldsmiths University of London.…
New research identifies a group of neurons that can help us stay awake when it matters
From the California Institute of Technology press release: Caltech researchers have identified a neural circuit in the brain that controls wakefulness. The findings have implications for treating insomnia, oversleeping, and sleep disturbances that accompany other neuropsychiatric…
Study suggests anxious people worry about risk, not loss
From the Elsevier press release: Life is a series of choices. Every time you make a decision, there is a possibility that things won’t go as expected (risk) or that something bad will happen (loss).…
Neuroimaging technique may help predict autism among high-risk infants
From the NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development press release: Functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) may predict which high-risk, 6-month old infants will develop autism spectrum disorder by age 2…
Amygdala activity predicts posttraumatic stress disorder
From the Elsevier press release: Neuroimaging measures of emotional brain function after acute trauma may help predict whether a person will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry. Led…
How the brain recognizes what the eye sees
From the Salk Institute press release: If you think self-driving cars can’t get here soon enough, you’re not alone. But programming computers to recognize objects is very technically challenging, especially since scientists don’t fully understand…
Culprit hidden in plain sight in Alzheimer disease development
From the IOS Press press release: A new study by researchers at the University of Montana, Universidad del Valle de México, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Boise State, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, heightens concerns…
Study suggests damage to amydala can make sideways faces more memorable and cause ’emotion blindness’
From the University of Bath press release: People with damage to a crucial part of the brain fail to recognise facial emotions, but they unexpectedly find faces looking sideways more memorable, researchers have found. The…
Brain’s hippocampus can organize memories for events as well as places
From the RIKEN press release: People organize memories in photo albums, journals or calendars, but how does the brain first put events in order? Though a great deal of work has been done on how…