From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: A new study conducted by The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., shows that neuroimaging data can predict the likelihood of whether a criminal will reoffend following…
From the University of Bristol press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists have identified a key molecule responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories. The findings, published in the…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Like it or not and despite the surrounding debate of its merits, 3-D is the technology du jour for movie-making in Hollywood. It now turns out that even…
From the Salk Institute for Biological Studies press release via ScienceDaily: Ever find yourself racking your brain on a Monday morning to remember where you put your car keys? When you do find those keys,…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release via HealthCanal: Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and collaborators at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami found that people with high levels…
From the Mount Sinai Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: Considerable opportunity exists to improve interventions and outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older adults, according to three studies published in the recent online issue…
From the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University press release via EurekAlert!: Women who abruptly and prematurely lose estrogen from surgical menopause have a two-fold increase in cognitive decline and dementia. “This is…
From the University of New South Wales (UNSW) press release via MedicalXpress: One in four elderly people with mild cognitive impairment – a precursor to dementia – naturally ‘reverts’ to normal cognition, research from the…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release via EurekAlert!: New findings from nonhuman primates suggest that an overactive core circuit in the brain, and its interaction with other specialized circuits, accounts for the variability in…
From the KU Leuven press release via ScienceDaily: Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a picture with a reward, the reward by itself becomes enough to alter the activity in the monkeys’ visual cortex. This…