From the University of Massachusetts Amherst press release: A scientific team has shown that the release of neurotransmitters in the brain is impaired in patients with schizophrenia who have a rare, single-gene mutation known to…
From the University of Helsinki press release: Research has shown that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon have so far…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: When people see a toothbrush, a car, a tree — any individual object — their brain automatically associates it with other things it naturally occurs with, allowing humans…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Researchers have found that eating disorder behaviors, such as binge-eating, alter the brain’s reward response process and food intake control circuitry, which can reinforce these behaviors.…
From the INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) press release: Astrocytes are cells in the brain which have long been considered only as mere support cells for neurons. In recent…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release: More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of spirituality and religiosity has been…
From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: As we age, our brains typically undergo a slow process of atrophy, causing less robust communication between various brain regions, which leads to declining memory and other cognitive…
From the University of Cambridge press release: Researchers have discovered a specific brain region underlying ‘goal-directed behaviour’ — that is, when we consciously do something with a particular goal in mind, for example going to…
From the University of Exeter press release: New research has revealed that people with the ability to visualise vividly have a stronger connection between their visual network and the regions of the brain linked to…