From the Vanderbilt University press release by Melanie Moran via MedicalXpress: We know that casting a ballot in the voting booth involves politics, values and personalities. But before you ever push the button for your…
From the IOS Press press release via EurekAlert!: Approximately half a million individuals suffer strokes in the US each year, and about one in five develops some form of post-stroke aphasia, the partial or total…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: National Football League (NFL) players may be at increased risk of depression as they age due to brain damage resulting from concussions, according to two…
From the BioMed Central Limited press release via ScienceDaily: The pattern of blood flow in the prefrontal cortex in the brains alters with age during multi-tasking, finds a new study in BioMed Central’s open access…
From the CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange) press release via ScienceDaily: One of the mechanisms involved in the onset of stress-induced depression has been highlighted in mice by researchers from CNRS, Inserm and UPMC (1). They…
From the Harvard University press release via EurekAlert!: A new finding by Harvard stem cell biologists turns one of the basics of neurobiology on its head – demonstrating that it is possible to turn one…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Originally, the label “borderline personality disorder” was applied to patients who were thought to represent a middle ground between patients with neurotic and psychotic disorders. Increasingly, though, this…
From the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) press release via ScienceDaily: Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published…
From the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne press release via EurekAlert!: It is well known that violent adults often have a history of childhood psychological trauma. Some of these individuals exhibit very real, physical alterations…
From the RIKEN press release via MedicalXpress: Humans and other animals learn by making mistakes. They can also learn from observing the mistakes of others. The brain processes self-generated errors in a region called the…