From the UC Berkeley press release via EurekAlert!: Intensive preparation for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) actually changes the microscopic structure of the brain, physically bolstering the connections between areas of the brain important…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Animals that literally have holes in their brains can go on to behave as normal adults if they’ve had the benefit of a little cognitive training in…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists at UCLA and the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, have unraveled how our brain cells encode the pronunciation of individual vowels in speech. Published in the Aug.…
From the University of Washington press release via EurekAlert!: A low dose of the sedative clonazepam alleviated autistic-like behavior in mice with a mutation that causes Dravet syndrome in humans, University of Washington researchers have…
From the University of North Carolina Health Care press release via EurekAlert!: A collaborative research effort by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Duke University, and University College of London in…
From the UCLA Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: Human and chimp brains look anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But where does the chimp brain end and…
From the University of Toronto press release via EurekAlert!: Have you ever wondered why you can remember things from long ago as if they happened yesterday, yet sometimes can’t recall what you ate for dinner…
From the IOS Press press release via EurekAlert!: Research has found that declines in temporal information processing (TIP), the rate at which auditory information is processed, underlies the progressive loss of function across multiple cognitive…
From the Michigan State University press release via HealthCanal: A parasite thought to be harmless and found in many people may actually be causing subtle changes in the brain, leading to suicide attempts. New research…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: The more that we understand the brain, the more complex it becomes. The same can be said about the genetics and neurobiology of psychiatric disorders. For “Mendelian” disorders,…