From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was released with the controversial voice fragment, “Math class is hard.” While the toy’s release met with public backlash, this underlying assumption persists,…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Specialized brain activation “replays” the possible routes that rats can take as they navigate a space, helping them keep track of the paths they’ve already taken…
From the University of British Columbia press release: New research published today in JAMA Psychiatry shows for the first time that patients with mood and anxiety disorders share the same abnormalities in regions of the brain involved…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts,…
From the University of Southern California press release: A national team of scientists has identified a circuit in the brain that appears to be associated with psychiatric disorders ranging from overeating to gambling, drug abuse…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: For years, researchers have observed that alcohol consumption is associated with reduced brain volume and concluded that drinking can literally shrink the brain. But new research…
From the University of Toronto press release: If you have ever smoked, or know someone who has – they might tell you that smoking a cigarette probably felt disgusting at first. Taryn Grieder has a…
From the National Research University Higher School of Economics press release: Oksana Zinchenko, Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, has conducted meta-analysis of 17 articles to find out which areas of…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Rats susceptible to anhedonia, a core symptom of depression, possess more serotonin neurons after being exposed to chronic stress, but the effect can be reversed through amygdala activation,…
From the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience – KNAW press release: Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have shown how it is possible that objects stand out less when they are surrounded by similar objects.…