From the Elsevier press release: A new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that processing of negative emotion can be strengthened or weakened by tuning the excitability of the right frontal part of…
From the Michigan State University press release: Spending too much time in dimly lit rooms and offices may actually change the brain’s structure and hurt one’s ability to remember and learn, indicates groundbreaking research by…
From the James Cook University press release: New research from a memory expert at James Cook University in Australia shows there may be a simple way to help eyewitnesses of crimes remember more about what…
From the Concordia University press release: After more than a decade of research, this much we know: it’s good for your brain to know another language. A new Concordia study goes further, however, focusing specifically…
From the University of Rochester Medical Center press release: While a couple of glasses of wine can help clear the mind after a busy day, new research shows that it may actually help clean the…
From the Uppsala University press release: Over the last few decades, a wealth of evidence has accumulated to suggest that a lack of sleep is bad for mind and body. Working memory is important for…
From the University of California – Davis press release: Virtual reality is helping neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis, get new insight into how different brain areas assemble memories in context. In a study…
From the University of Colorado at Boulder press release: Ask a nonscientist what memories are made of and you’ll likely conjure images of childhood birthday parties or wedding days. Charles Hoeffer thinks about proteins. For…
From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: We categorize pretty much everything we see, and remarkably, we often achieve that feat whether the items look patently similar — like Fuji and McIntosh apples — or…
From the Stanford University Medical Center press release: For the first time, scientists have identified the brain pathway that links a positive attitude toward math to achievement in the subject. In a study of elementary…