From the UC Davis Health System press release via ScienceDaily: Uncontrolled high blood pressure damages the brain’s structure and function as early as young middle-age, and even the brains of middle-aged people who clinically would…
From the University of Chicago press release by William Harms via ScienceDaily: Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the…
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via ScienceDaily: Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: New research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre. Mounya Elhilali, of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues have…
From the Royal Society press release via MedicalXpress: New research published in Biology Letters today shows that humans are biased to look at eyes… even those of headless monsters! The findings from the universities of…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release via EurekAlert!: The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by…
From the McLean Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: In a column appearing in the current issue of the journal Nature, McLean Hospital biostatistician Nicholas Lange, ScD, cautions against heralding the use of brain imaging scans…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release via EurekAlert!: New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler’s story – one that upon a…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists report that they can predict who will improve most on an unfamiliar video game by looking at their brain waves. They describe their…
From the University College London press release via HealthCanal: Researchers from UCL have found that lonely people have less grey matter in a part of the brain associated with decoding eye gaze and other social…