From the University of Calgary press release: In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at the Cumming School of Medicine’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the University of Calgary have…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: In a scientific first, researchers have observed in mice how the brain learns to repeat patterns of neural activity that elicit the all-important feel-good sensation. Until…
From the Colorado State University press release: Most people can relate to the prickly, unsettling experience of déjà vu: When you’re in a new situation, but you feel like you’ve been there before. For some,…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: What happens when the information you try to remember becomes too much for the brain? Apparently we turn to our eyes for help, suggests a recently…
From the University of Colorado at Boulder press release: Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns…
From the New York University press release: The “loudness” of our thoughts — or how we imagine saying something — influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds, a team of researchers from…
From the University of Tampere press release: In a new study from the University of Tampere in Finland, nasally administered oxytocin spray strengthened brain responses to pictures of infant and adult faces in mothers of…
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: Primary schoolchildren who have been raised in homes surrounded by more greenspace tend to present with larger volumes of white and grey matter in certain…
From the Åbo Akademi University press release: Acquisition and active use of two languages have been suggested to train executive functions in the brain, such as focusing one’s attention, suppressing interference from the environment, and…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release: The debate in sleep science has gone on for a generation. People and other animals sicken and die if they are deprived of sleep, but why is sleep…