From the American Geriatrics Society press release: Cognition is the ability to think and make decisions. Medication-free treatments that maintain cognitive health as we age are attracting the attention of medical experts. Maintaining the ability…
From the Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan press release: New research reports that hyperreactive brain networks could play a part in the hypersensitivity of fibromyalgia. A new study finds that patients with fibromyalgia have…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Keith Jarret, world-famous jazz pianist, once answered in an interview when asked if he would ever be interested in doing a concert…
From the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences press release: How the brain is able to store memories over long periods of time has been a persistent mystery to neuroscientists. In a…
From the University of Cambridge press release: A new and relatively simple technique for mapping the wiring of the brain has shown a correlation between how well connected an individual’s brain regions are and their…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: The male rat brain changes how it stores information depending on whether the environment in which it learns is safe or dangerous, according to new research published in eNeuro.…
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: It is wartime. You and your fellow refugees are hiding from enemy soldiers, when a baby begins to cry. You cover her mouth to block…
From the Leiden Universiteit press release: The brains of adolescents react more responsively to receiving rewards. This can lead to risky behaviour, but, according to Leiden University research, it also has a positive function: it…
From the American Chemical Society press release: Dementia affects millions of people worldwide, robbing them of their ability to think, remember and live as they once did. In the search for new ways to fight…
From the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum press release: The neuroscientists Dr Christina Strauch and Prof Dr Denise Manahan-Vaughan from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have investigated which brain area is responsible for storing odours as long-term memories. Some odours can…