From the Wayne State University press release: A Wayne State University researcher believes studying people’s ability to find their way around may help explain why loss of mental capacity occurs with age. Scott Moffat, Ph.D.,…
From the JAMA and Archives Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Smoking in men appears to be associated with more rapid cognitive decline, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, one…
From the Biomed press release via AlphaGalileo and ScienceDirect: It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: When you see a picture of a hand, how do you know whether it’s a right or left hand? This “hand laterality” problem may seem obscure, but…
From the Swinburne University of Technology via MedicalXPress: A daily mental ‘work-out’ has given a group of over 50s the brain performance of people several years younger, a Swinburne University of Technology clinical trial has…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction—say, doing a puzzle—relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes?…
From the University of Manchester press release: Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain – known as the…
From the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston press release: One of the most distinctive signs of the development of Alzheimer’s disease is a change in the behavior of a protein that neuroscientists call…
From the Dartmouth College press release: For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned. With colleagues at Birkbeck College in the University of London, he is investigating the…
From the University of Bristol press release via EurekAlert!: New findings, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, reveal a novel mechanism through which…