From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: Next time you’re doing a slow burn in security screening at the airport, calm yourself with the assurance that a more deliberate baggage scanner may do a…
From the Endocrine Society press release via EurekAlert!: A missing brain enzyme increases concentrations of a protein related to pain-killer addiction, according to an animal study. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release via EurekAlert!: For the first time, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have identified which emotion a person is experiencing based on brain activity. The study, which will be…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release via MedicalXpress: Locating a car that’s blowing its horn in heavy traffic, channel-hopping between football and a thriller on TV without losing the plot, and not forgetting the start of…
From the Virginia Tech press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have discovered a pathway by which the brain controls a molecule critical to forming long-term memories and connected with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The discovery was…
From the Ohio State University press release via EurekAlert!: A new study has found that chasing down a moving object is not only a matter of sight or of sound, but of mind. The study…
From the Endocrine Society press release via EurekAlert!: Memory improves in older, overweight women after they lose weight by dieting, and their brain activity actually changes in the regions of the brain that are important…
From the McGill press release via HealthCanal: A new study shows compelling evidence that associations between cognitive ability and cortical grey matter in old age can largely be accounted for by cognitive ability in childhood. …
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: People who experience any stroke symptoms—but do not have a stroke—may also be more likely to develop problems with memory and thinking, according to new…
From the Kessler Foundation press release via EurekAlert!: U.S. and Italian researchers have determined that brain reserve, as well as cognitive reserve, independently protects against cognitive decline in multiple sclerosis (MS). Their article, “Brain reserve…