From the Radboud University Nijmegen via ScienceDaily: Alpha waves were long ignored, but gained interest of brain researchers recently. Electrical activity of groups of brain cells results in brain waves with different amplitudes. The so-called…
From the University of Western Ontario press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at Western University have created a mouse model that reproduces some of the chemical changes in the brain that occur with Alzheimer’s, shedding new…
From the Stony Brook Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University have developed a high-resolution, 3D optical Doppler imaging tomography technique that captures the effects of…
From the Stanford University press release by Bjorn Carey via ScienceDaily: If a 7-year-old is breezing through the “Harry Potter” books, studies indicate that he or she will be a strong reader later in life.…
From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via ScienceDaily: A new study provides evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates the reward systems in the brain to promote…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified small variations in a number of genes that are closely linked to an…
From the Lancaster University press release via AlphaGalileo: A new study from Lancaster University has found that sleeping on a problem really can help people to find a solution. The study, published online this week…
From the NYU press release via EurekAlert!: Neuroscientists from New York University and the University of California, Irvine have isolated the “when” and “where” of molecular activity that occurs in the formation of short-, intermediate-,…
From the BioMed Central press release via EurekAlert!: The causes of autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are complex, and contain elements of both nature (genes) and the environment. New research published in BioMed Central’s…
From the Ohio State University press release via EurekAlert!: A new study in animals shows that chronic stress during pregnancy prevents brain benefits of motherhood, a finding that researchers suggest could increase understanding of postpartum…