From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: When you expect a really bad experience to happen and then it doesn’t, it’s a distinctly positive feeling. A new study of fear extinction training in mice…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release: Storing and retrieving memories is among the most important tasks our intricate brains must perform, yet how that happens at a molecular level remains incompletely understood. A new…
From the University of Tokyo press release: Can’t remember something? Try waiting until later in the day. Researchers identified a gene in mice that seems to influence memory recall at different times of day and…
From the University of Alberta press release: Bilingual children use as many words as monolingual children when telling a story, and demonstrate high levels of cognitive flexibility, according to new research by University of Alberta…
From the City University London press release: A new study has shown that relative to participants without a psychotic disorder, those diagnosed with a disorder were consistently impaired across all areas of cognitive (memory and…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau press release: People with specific brain attributes are more likely than others to benefit from targeted cognitive interventions designed to enhance fluid intelligence, scientists report in…
From the Michigan State University press release: Michigan State University’s Sleep and Learning Lab has conducted one of the largest sleep studies to date, revealing that sleep deprivation affects us much more than prior theories…
From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory news release: When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from ‘novice’ to ‘expert.’ The changes are reflected in the…
From the University of Edinburgh press release: People who play games — such as cards and board games — are more likely to stay mentally sharp in later life, a study suggests. Those who regularly…
From the University of Birmingham press release: Scientists at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam have uncovered a possible explanation for the mental sluggishness that often accompanies illness. An estimated…