Your hands may reveal the struggle to maintain self-control
From the Ohio State University press release: It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet for the day. But what is happening during those few seconds…
Controlling memory by triggering specific brain waves during sleep
From the Institute for Basic Science press release: Have you ever tried to recall something just before going to sleep and then wake up with the memory fresh in your mind? While we absorb so much…
No link seen between traumatic brain injury and cognitive decline
From the Boston University Medical Center press release: Although much research has examined traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a possible risk factor for later life dementia from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), little is…
Study looks into doing market research via brainwave scans
From the Missouri University of Science and Technology press release: A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology wants to scrap the traditional electronic and paper survey approaches to gathering marketing and information systems data…
Preschoolers learn from math games, to a point
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: What is the best way to help poor schoolchildren succeed at math? A study co-authored by researchers at MIT, Harvard University, and New York University now sheds light…
Marijuana and vulnerability to psychosis
From the University of Montreal press release: Going from an occasional user of marijuana to a weekly or daily user increases an adolescent’s risk of having recurrent psychotic-like experiences by 159%, according to a new Canadian…
Brain changes accompany development of metamemory from childhood to adolescence
From the University of California – Davis press release: Being able to assess our own memories helps us to avoid errors and prompts us to collect more information to fill the gaps. Psychologists know that this…
Learning with music can change brain structure
From the University of Edinburgh press release: Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly develops an important part of the brain, according to a new study. People who practiced a basic movement task…
Brains evolved to need exercise
From the University of Arizona press release: Mounting scientific evidence shows that exercise is good not only for our bodies, but for our brains. Yet, exactly why physical activity benefits the brain is not well understood.…
Training changes the way the brain pays attention
From the PLOS press release: Behavioral training changes the way attention facilitates information processing in the human brain, a study publishing on June 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology led by Sirawaj Itthipuripat,…