From the University of Oregon press release via EurekAlert!: The ability to focus and switch tasks readily amid distractions was compromised for up to two months following brain concussions suffered by high school athletes, according…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: New research suggests that racial stereotypes and creativity have more in common than we might think. In an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the…
From the University of Rochester Medical Center media release: The memory problems that many women experience in their 40s and 50s as they approach and go through menopause are both real and appear to be…
Spontaneous eyeblinks may be actively involved in a release of attention during cognitive behavior, potentially explaining why people generate eyeblinks far more often than necessary to lubricate the eyes, according to a study. It remains…
From the McLean Hospital press release via ScienceDaily: The long-term use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) may severely impact the user’s ability to accurately recall the shapes and spatial relationships of objects, according to a recent…
From the University of Western Ontario press release via EurekAlert!: After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, a Western University-led research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one’s intelligence quotient or…
From the American Society for Cell Biology press release via EurekAlert!: The two infamous proteins, amyloid-beta (A?) and tau, that characterize advanced Alzheimer’s disease (AD), start healthy neurons on the road to cell death long…
From the BioMed Central press release via HealthCanal: Older people often worry about dementia and while some risks are known, for example alcoholism or stroke, the effects of illness are less clear. New research published…
From the UC Davis press release via ScienceDaily: Memories are made of this, the song says. Now neuroscientists have for the first time shown individual mouse brain cells being switched on during learning and later…
From the UCSD press release via EurekAlert!: Chronic alcohol and marijuana during youth is associated with worsened neurocognitive abilities into later adolescence and adulthood. A new study examines fiber tract integrity affected by adolescent alcohol…