From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via EurekAlert!: Exercise doesn’t only strengthen your heart and muscles – it also beefs up your brain. Dozens of studies now show that aerobic exercise can…
From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: Rats can’t usually see infrared light, but they have “touched” it in a Duke University lab. The rats sensed the light as a sensation of touch after…
From the Brown University press release via EurekAlert!: Aphasia, an impairment in speaking and understanding language after a stroke, is frustrating both for victims and their loved ones. In two talks Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013,…
From the University of Oxford press release via EurekAlert!: Genes linked to autism and schizophrenia are only switched on during the early stages of brain development, according to a study in mice led by researchers…
From the McGill University press release via ScienceDaily: Our ability to learn and form new memories is fully dependent on the brain’s ability to be plastic — that is to change and adapt according to…
From the Brown University press release via HealthCanal: Why does training in mindfulness meditation help patients manage chronic pain and depression? In a newly published neurophysiological review, Brown University scientists propose that mindfulness practitioners gain…
From the University of Bergen press release via EurekAlert!: Two years ago, researcher Josef Bless was listening to music on his phone when he suddenly had an idea. “I noticed that the sounds of the…
From the University of Barcelona press release via AlphaGalileo: The journal PLOS ONE has recently published a study which provides new data around attention and visual perception. The article “A role of eye vergence in…
From the University of Michigan press release via ScienceDaily: Hunger, thirst, stress and drugs can create a change in the brain that transforms a repulsive feeling into a strong positive “wanting,” a new University of…
From the University of Iowa press release by John Riehl via ScienceDaily: When doctors at the University of Iowa prepared a patient to inhale a panic-inducing dose of carbon dioxide, she was fearless. But within…