From the Cell Press press release via AlphaGalileo: In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them.…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists now have a better understanding of the way that stress impacts the brain. New research, published by Cell Press in the January 26 issue of the…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist because his amygdala activated –…
From the Wiley-Blackwell press release via EurekAlert!: New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development…
From the UC Berkeley press release: A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, provides even more reason for people to read a book or do a puzzle, and to make…
From the Imperial College London press release via EurekAlert!: Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of…
From the Emory University press release: An Emory University neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those…
From the Kessler Foundation press release via ScienceDaily: Neuroscientists at Kessler Foundation have documented increased cerebral activation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) following memory retraining using the modified Story Memory Technique (mSMT). This is…
From the Virginia Tech press release via EurekAlert!: In the classic film 12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda’s character sways a jury with his quiet, persistent intelligence. But would he have succeeded if he had allowed…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: How does the brain confer meaning on the things we perceive in the world? “Many of us favor the theory that, whether it comes in through the…