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Tel Aviv University: New Insight into Brain Stability
Tel Aviv University: New Insight into Brain Stability New Insight into Brain Stability: The Key Role of NMDA Receptors Researchers at Tel Aviv University have made a fundamental discovery: the NMDA receptor (NMDAR)—long studied primarily for its role in
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The brain stores at least 3 copies of every memory
A new study in mice suggests that the brain creates multiple copies of memories, which enables it to regulate how they change over time.
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Singing from memory unlocks a surprisingly common musical superpower
Psychologists from UC Santa Cruz wanted to study "earworms," the types of songs that get stuck in your head and play automatically on a loop. So they asked people to sing out any earworms they were experiencing and record them on their phones when prompte
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TAU: Breakthrough in delivering drugs through the blood-brain barrier
TAU: Breakthrough in delivering drugs through the blood-brain barrier Researchers at Tel Aviv University engineered the ‘cat parasite’ Toxoplasma gondii to produce and release therapeutic proteins in the human brain In a breakthrough study an
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
What Happens In the Brain During PTSD? | Psychology Today
Brain imaging research helps explain the power of traumatic memories.
Psychology | Personality
How gambling affects the brain and who is most vulnerable to addiction
Once confined mostly to casinos concentrated in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, access to gambling has expanded dramatically, including among children.
Science & Technology | Science
Neuroscientists Finally Understand An Elusive Mechanism Involved in Memory Creation
Researchers may have pinpointed the spot where brains store memories, which could help develop new neurological drugs.
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How Music Affects Your Brain | Time
Susan Magsamen explores how music has the power to transform and enhance our brains.
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The Brain’s Support Cells May Play a Key Role in OCD
A newly discovered cellular mechanism that involves astrocytes, as well as neurons, appears to be involved in repetitive behaviors and OCD.
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Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos.
The study shows that our brains exist between chaos and stability—a finding that could be used to help tweak them either way.
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How do strong muscles keep your brain healthy?
There’s a robust molecular language being spoken between your muscles and your brain.
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A 45-year-old brain expert shares how he eats like a 'SuperAger' to stay 'sharp and focused' every day
There is a group of people longevity researchers call "SuperAgers," who are in their 80s and beyond but whose brains are decades younger. Neuroscience expert Marc Milstein has implemented their habits into his own life. Here's a look at what he eats
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Some regions of your brain can communicate faster as you age
Signals between some regions of the brain may be fastest at age 34, while transmission in other areas gets steadily faster with age. Understanding this may improve our knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions such as schizophrenia
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Video Shows Human Brain Cells in Dish Teaching Themselves to Play a Videogame
In Scientists were, for the first time, able to show that 800,000 living brain cells trapped in a petri dish can be taught how to play the videogame Pong.
Music | Music
Why Certain Types of Music Make Our Brains Sing, and Others Don’t
Music can induce a range of emotions and help us to better understand different cultures. But what is it that makes us tune in to some songs more than others? Researchers say when we listen to a song, our brains predict what happens next, and that predict
Advice & Self-Help | Advice
4 Ways to Get Smarter, Learn Faster, Make Better Decisions, and Build a Healthier Brain
Want to double your learning speed, improve your short- and long-term memory, and make quicker decisions? Check out these surprisingly simple techniques.
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Tel Aviv Univ: New method eradicates deadly brain tumors
Tel Aviv Univ: New method eradicates deadly brain tumors New method eradicates deadly brain tumors by ‘starving’ them of energy source Dramatic results in glioblastoma research: eliminating the astrocytes (a major class of brain cells) surrounding the
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
3 Simple Habits That Can Protect Your Brain From Cognitive Decline
These three habits help your body, and also have a positive impact on your brain.
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Brain practices new tasks while people sleep, study finds | Brown University
A new study associated with the BrainGate consortium offered significant clues about how humans learn and form long-term memories; the findings could provide insights for developers of assistive tools for people with paralysis.
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What's the Highest IQ Ever Recorded?
According to Guinness World Records, Marilyn vos Savant's IQ of 228 is the highest ever recorded.
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Leonardo da Vinci could visually flip between dimensions, neuroscientist claims - Big Think
A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.
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Study Reveals Set of Brain Regions That Control Complex Sequences of Movement
The primary motor and primary somatosensory areas of the brain are involved in controlling immediate motor movements in real-time, while the premotor area appears to control planned, sequential movements as well as reacting to and adjusting the sequence w
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Researchers Discover The Format Our Brains Use to Store Working Visual Memory
The "secret code" the brain uses to create a key type of memory has finally been cracked.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
How Sugar Affects the Brain, According to a Neuroscience Expert
Not surprisingly, you need sugar to function—but cravings are actually a result of too much.
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New brain imaging technique suggests memories are stored in the connections between your neurons
All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal first suggested that the brain stores information by rear
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Regret Can Be All-Consuming—a Neurobehavioral Scientist Explains How to Overcome It
Remorse and sorrow from a bad choice can haunt you for years, even decades. But there are evidence-based ways to move past regret.
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
Why Does Exercise Improve Brain Health as You Age? Scientists Just Unlocked a Major Key To Finding Out
A new exercise for brain health protein study shows how movement protects your brain against dementia. Here's what you need to know.
Health & Fitness | Alzheimers
Viagra may be useful against Alzheimer's dementia
The impotence pill could have effects in the brain that may help fight dementia, say US researchers.
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How Brains Seamlessly Switch between Languages - Scientific American
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Psychology | Psychology
Is Everyone Looking at You? | Psychology Today
Although it feels like we are in a spotlight, people fail to notice many things.
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How Brains Understand Language: Part 1 of 2. | by John Ball | Pat Inc | Oct, 2021 | Medium
Computers have revolutionized the world with continuous improvements since the 1950s, but they haven’t worked well on biologically-based problems like vision, animal-like movement control and…
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3 Ways to Hack Your Brain to Conquer Your Nerves, According to a Stanford Neuroscientist
Rock your next speech by using simple physical actions to dial down your stress response.
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Brain structures grow differently in boys, men with autism
Autistic boys and men show notable differences in brain development, according to magnetic resonance imaging scans taken over a 16-year period.
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Mental Handwriting Produces Brain Activity Turned Into Text - Neuroscience News
A new brain-computer interface could help thousands of people with neurodegenerative disorders and spinal cord injuries the ability to regain communication skills. The BCI, in combination with a machine learning algorithm, can generate words on a screen,
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3 Ways Your Brain Actually Improves With Age
Yes, you might lose your keys more, but aging has its cognitive upsides, according to new research.
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Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging — and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span.
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Your Brain Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
A conversation with neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on the counterintuitive ways your mind processes reality—and why understanding that might help you feel a little less anxious.
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
Motor Neuron Medication May Assist in Treatment of PTSD | Psychiatric Times
A recent study found riluzole may effectively combat hyperarousal symptoms in combat veterans with PTSD.
Psychology | Psychology
This Is Your Brain’s 5-HT2A Receptors on LSD or Psilocybin | Psychology Today
Scientists have pinpointed how psychedelic compounds bind with brain receptors in a way that gives drugs like LSD and "magic mushrooms" hallucinogenic effects.
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Musings On Music: Seven Insights From Psychology – Research Digest
By Emma Young. New research is revealing all manner of psychological and neurological effects of music.
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Why Are Memories Attached to Emotions So Strong? | Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Multiple neurons in the brain must fire in synchrony to create persistent memories tied to intense emotions, new research from Columbia neuroscientists has found.
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Dr. Dyan Haspel-Johnson's Tuesday Sleep Tip - ABOUT HYPNOSIS: Hypnosis, the Brain, and Sleep
Some quick and easy self-care strategies to help improve your sleep ???? In this sleep tip, I discuss what happens in the brain during hypnosis and why that mak...
Psychology | Parenting and Kids
Parents Have More Synchronised Patterns Of Brain Activity When They’re Together – Research Digest
By Emily Reynolds. Couples who listened to sounds together showed more similar activity in brain areas involved in attention than those who were apart.
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New Hyperbaric Therapy Could Limit and Perhaps Reverse Cognitive Decline | Psychology Today
Oxygen might be the new tool for enhancing cognitive function in the elderly.
Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices
Mindfulness May Ease the Emotional Burden of MS | Health News | US News
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Dementia: negative thinking linked with more rapid cognitive decline, study indicates
Our study found that people who had higher repetitive negative thinking patterns experienced more cognitive decline over a four-year period.
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Gradual Hearing Loss “Reorganises” Brain’s Sensory Areas And Impairs Memory (In Mice) – Research Digest
By Emma Young. If processes are mirrored in humans, finding could help explain why hearing loss raises risk of Alzheimer's.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
New AI Algorithm Identifies Alzheimer's Disease, Predicts Risk For Disease - Study Finds
An international research team led by Boston University researchers created an artificial intelligence computer algorithm that may solve this problem.
Psychology | Parenting and Kids
How babies integrate new events into their knowledge -- ScienceDaily
Babies seek to understand the world around them and learn many new things every day. Unexpected events -- for example when a ball falls through a table -- provide researchers with the unique opportunity to understand infants' learning processes. What happ
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A brain glitch? A sign of quantum entanglement? What science says about déjà vu | Aeon Videos
Roughly two-thirds of people have had déjà vu, or the weird feeling that a new situation has been experienced before. Yet its prevalence belies just how mysterious the phenomenon remains to researchers, despite some extraordinary recent leaps in neurosc
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Study Ties Brain Inflammation to Several Types of Dementia | Health News | US News
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Health & Fitness | Sleep
Self-Medication: Study Finds Deep Sleep 'Rewires' The Brain To Eliminate Anxiety
Falling into a deep sleep soothes the brain into a relaxed state, allowing it to reset inter-neural connections and reinvigorate itself, a new study finds.
Psychology | Personality
Gene variants provide insight into brain, body incongruence in transgender -- ScienceDaily
Some of the first biological evidence of the incongruence transgender individuals experience, because their brain indicates they are one sex and their body another, may have been found in estrogen receptor pathways in the brain of 30 transgender individua
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How Much Does Our Language Determine Behavior? - David Shariatmadari - Behavioral Scientist
In his latest book, Don't Believe a Word, David Shariatmadari explores how the language we speak impacts the way we see the world, and our behavior in it.
Health & Fitness | Sleep
How Sleep Changes Your Brain, From Infancy to Old Age, According to Science
Neuroscience reveals many ways sleep changes our brain, from neuron growth to white matter density and the developmental dangers of jet lag.
Health & Fitness | Sleep
Self-Medication: Study Finds Deep Sleep 'Rewires' The Brain To Eliminate Anxiety
Falling into a deep sleep soothes the brain into a relaxed state, allowing it to reset inter-neural connections and reinvigorate itself, a new study finds.
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Less Than One Percent of the Population are ‘Super Recognizers’—Take This Test to Find Out If You’re One of Them
This facial recognition test is your chance to earn the right to claim that you never forget a face.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Birth Control Pills May Be Shrinking A Vital Brain Region In Women, Study Finds
A disconcerting new study finds that birth control pills may actually impact the size or even shrink a portion of women's brains.
Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices
How to Rewire Your Neural Pathways
Tara Swart, M.D., shares how we can develop metacognition and change our brain's neural pathways in order to achieve your goals.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
The Immune System Plays an Important Part in Memory and the Brain
Study adds fuel to growing evidence that the immune system does more than fight disease. Paul Biegler reports.
Psychology | Personality
Harsh Sounds Like Screams Hijack Brain Areas Involved In Pain And Aversion, Making Them Impossible To Ignore – Researc
By Emma Young. Sounds between 40 and 80 Hz are particularly attention-grabbing.
Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support
How Good Relationships Support Good Brain Health
This science will inspire you to prioritize social connections.
Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices
Great Tips to Stay Focused and Increase Productivity and Happiness
Strategies to avoid the pitfalls of distractions and interruptions, improve your cognitive control, reduce goal interference, and aid your distracted mind.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
A Connection Between Motivation and Brain Inflammation | Psychology Today
New animal research identifies a possible link between acute inflammation of the cerebellum and "depression-like" symptoms marked by a decrease in motivation and sociability.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Hearing Aids Linked to Anti-aging and Protecting Brain Function
Staying sharp, mindful, and alert in our later years is easier said than done, but a study finds that wearing a hearing aid may help protect brain function in older adults.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Mounting evidence shows that playing football causes brain ripples
Study suggests midbrain may hide significant injury
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Scientists Find Different Thoughts Produce Different Sound Frequencies
Synchronised brainwaves may explain our ability to rapidly analyse information, allowing us to think through options before the right one is laid down as a memory
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Here's How Déjà Vu Works
Feelings of déjà vu and premonition seem spooky, but when we understand the common tricks our memory plays on us, there’s nothing unusual about these experiences.
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Scientists Locate Part of the Brain that Produces Chemical in Ayahausca
A psychedelic compound known for its powerful, hallucinogenic episodes is produced naturally in the brains of mammals, according to medical researchers from the University of Michigan.
Psychology | Personality
Trauma Effects the Brain of Survivors and Their Offspring
The inhumanity and cruelty of the Holocaust can not be overstated, and a new European study reports that holocaust survivors have dealt with lifelong negative changes to their brain structures.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
The Brain Benefits more from Short Spurts of Exercise
Much has been written about the great mental health benefits that come with regular exercise. Now a new study shows that hitting the treadmill every morning -- even for a short period of time -- offers another brain benefit: it may make you smarter.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
New Study Shows Promise for Improving Cognitive and Memory Circuits
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Brain Hacks to support the Way You Think
& Get Moving with Brain Hacks: 200 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Playing Pokémon Extensively In Childhood Actually Changes the Brain
By Emma Young. As well as being fascinating, the study has important practical implications.
Psychology | Personality
When we are Angry Or Afraid we can be Less in Control of Our Actions
By Matthew Warren. First study of its kind raises questions about the accountability of people going through extreme emotions.
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Your Brain Stops Time When You Blink – Research Digest
By Emma Young. The study raises all kinds of fascinating questions for future research to investigate.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Why Being A Righty Or Lefty Matters In Mental Health Treatment - Study Finds
As it turns out, long-discovered emotional structure of the brain is reversed in left-handed people, affecting and calling into question how they respond to certain treatments, according to recent research out of Cornell University.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
“Skunk” Cannabis Disrupts Brain Networks – But Effects Are Blocked In Other Strains – Research Digest
By Matthew Warren. Understanding that not all strains of cannabis are created equal is important in a time where the drug is becoming more widely accepted.
Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices
This is what eight weeks of mindfulness training does to your brain – Research Digest
A systematic review suggests 8 weeks of mindfulness training leads to brain changes similar to those seen in experienced meditators.
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Participants In This Study Successfully Down-regulated Their Amygdala Activity With The Help Of Neurofeedback – Resear
By Eleanor Morgan. The clinical potential of this technique, bridging the worlds of neurobiology and psychotherapy, is clear.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
The Brain May Actually Keep Generating New Cells Well Into Old Age | Smart News | Smithsonian
An analysis of 58 brain samples found that neurogenesis declines over time and is particularly poor among those with Alzheimer's
Psychology | Personality
An Engineer Says He's Figured Out Why Time Moves Faster as We Grow Up
As we humans grow older and wiser, it's not unusual to feel as if time were whizzing by, quietly gathering speed with every year.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Forgetting uses more brain power than remembering -- ScienceDaily
Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers discovered through neuroimaging.
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Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.
The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior, perhaps even playing a role in dementia, autism and other disorders.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
How Helping People Affects Your Brain
It truly is better to give than receive, biologically speaking. The brain gives us an emotional boost when we put others first and do something selfless.
Science & Technology | Science
How much control do you really have over your actions? These brain regions provide clues | Science | AAAS
Study of people with two rare neurological disorders may shed light on some aspects of free will
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Mysterious new brain cell found in people | Science | AAAS
But newly discovered “rosehip” neuron is missing in mice
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The neuroscience of religious and spiritual experience
Have you ever wondered what happens in the brain when you believe in God? We take a look at neuroscientific studies that may explain spiritual experience.
Science & Technology | Science
Bilingualism: What happens in the brain?
With the number of bilingual individuals increasing steadily, find out how bilingualism affects the brain and cognitive function.
Science & Technology | Science
"Traveling" Brain Waves May Be Critical for Cognition - Scientific American
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Music | Music
This Is Your Brain On Music | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
USC's Dr. Assal Habibi has been studying the brains of 80 kids for five years in the hopes of answering the question: does studying music enhance brain function? We'll soon find out.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
'Dear Kids, Love From Your Brain.' What All Kids Need to Know About the Brain -
Kids do great things with the right information, and any information we can give them about how to become the best version of themselves will lay a sprinkling of gold dust on their path to adulthood. They have enormous power to influence the structure and
Health & Fitness | Health
To Help The Body Fight Chronic Disease, Scientists Learn To Decode Brain Signals
Researchers just identified two chemicals that tell the brain to trigger inflammation. They hope that someday they can control the signals to fight disease.
Health & Fitness | Health
Memory Pictures: Tips to Stay Smart, Sharp, and Focused
WebMD shows you how to keep your brain active at every age with these memory tips. Find out how to focus and keep your brain sharp.
Health & Fitness | Health
Research on the Connection Between the Brain and Gut
The gut microbiome may also contribute to MS and Alzheimer’s disease.
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South Carolina leads the nation for Alzheimer’s. 5 ways to keep from losing your mind
Hilton Head nonprofit Memory Matters adds prevention education to its arsenal of Alzheimer's and dementia help for clients and families.
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No new 'learning' brain cells after age 13: study
News, email and search are just the beginning. Discover more every day. Find your yodel.
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Synesthesia’s mysterious ‘mingling of the senses’ may result from hyperconnected neurons | Science | AAAS
New look at synesthesia genetics shows possible overlap with autism
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FDA approves first ever blood test for concussion - CNN
The US Food and Drug Administration has, for the first time, approved a blood test to help detect concussion in adults.
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A Brain Implant Improved Memory, Scientists Report
Electrodes threaded into the brains of epilepsy patients enhanced their recall on word tests by about 15 percent.
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Alzheimer's Science Shocked by Discovery That Key Protein Behaves Like an Infection
Alzheimer's disease may act more like an infection than we previously thought.
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Huge study of teen brains could reveal roots of mental illness, impacts of drug abuse | Science | AAAS
Researchers aim to follow 10,000 children through the challenges of adolescence
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness Info
Ninety-nine percent of ailing NFL player brains show hallmarks of neurodegenerative disease, autopsy study finds | Scien
Study could ramp up pressure to further protect players of American football
Science & Technology | Science
Scientists Have Reversed Brain Damage in a 2-Year-Old Girl Who Drowned in a Swimming Pool
Researchers in the US have reported what they believe is a first-of-its-kind reversal of brain damage, after treating a drowned and resuscitated toddler with a combination of oxygen therapies.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
How Family Problems In Childhood Affect Brain Development
Early life stress has this worrying effect on the brain.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
The human brain sees the world as an 11-dimensional multiverse
New research suggests that the human brain is almost beyond comprehension because it doesn’t process the world in two dimensions or even three. No, the human...
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
Super SEALs: Elite Units Pursue Brain-Stimulating Technologies
Naval Special Warfare units have been testing and evaluating the use of performance-enhancing neuro-stimulation technology.
Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help
How to Change Your Personality -- Science of Us
A big new study promises you are (probably) not stuck with yourself.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
A new brain study sheds light on why it can be so hard to change someone's political beliefs
Why we react to inconvenient truths as if they were personal insults.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
Religious Experience Has Fascinating Effect On The Brain
Brains scans during religious experience reveal the effects of intense divine feelings.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
Tests raise hopes for radical new therapy for phobias and PTSD
Researchers able to reduce anxieties without asking people to think about them consciously, making it more appealing than current therapies
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
Daydreaming is NOT Just A Waste Of Time, Studies Finds
People tend to think of daydreaming and letting the mind wander as a waste of time.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Increase Attention With Oldest Technique of All (Forget Brain Training)
While 'brain training' games have become popular, there is a better way to increase attention, new research suggests.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
The Age At Which Learning a New Language Stops Strengthening The Brain
How learning a new language changes the brain.
Pets & Animals | Pets & Animals
Your dog really does know what you’re saying, and a brain scan shows how
Dogs understand both the meaning of words and the tone used to speak them, a new study finds.
Health & Fitness | Hypnosis
What Happens When You're Hypnotized?: MedlinePlus
What Happens When You're Hypnotized?
Politics | Politics
Microcephaly discoveries made in non-Zika cases help explain abnormal brain growth
Long before Zika virus made it a household word, the birth defect called microcephaly puzzled scientists and doctors -- even as it changed the lives of the babies born with it during the pre-Zika era. But new discoveries may help explain what happens in t
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
Changing Your Brain By Changing Your Mind
How meditation rewires your brain to be more positive
Health & Fitness | Health News
Brain training may forestall dementia onset for years, new study says
If you’re intent on keeping dementia at bay, new research suggests you’ll need more than crossword puzzles, aerobic exercise and an active social life. In a study released Sunday, researchers found that older adults who did exercises to shore up the s
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
Yoga May Be Good for the Brain
A weekly routine of yoga and meditation may help to stave off aging-related mental decline, according to a study of older adults with memory problems.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Smarter, Stronger, Better Than Yesterday - The Beliefs That Will Make the Difference (And science has proven it.)
One of the most remarkable and oh-so-good-to-be-human findings in the last decade or so is that we can change our brain. Mindset - what we believe - is key.
Psychology | Relationships
The Family Relationship That Could Be Most Responsible For Your Emotional Life
The ‘corticolimbic system’ plays an important role in mood disorders, such as depression.
Health & Fitness | Health News
If We Could Put King Solomon in an MRI Machine, Could We See the Wisdom in his Brain?
At the 2010 Cannes Film Festival premiere of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, director Woody Allen was asked about aging. He replied…
Health & Fitness | Health News
The Human Brain as a Word Cloud, on a Shared Drive
In research reported Wednesday in Nature, neuroscientists at the University of California at Berkeley created a comprehensive atlas of neural patterns sparked by spoken language.
Health & Fitness | Health News
The Earliest Sign of Alzheimer's: Navigation Could Be Critical
Memory problems may not be the first sign of Alzheimer’s.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Alzheimer's could be helped with meditation
Researchers at Jena University Hospital in Germany found chemicals behind the feel-good feeling produced by meditation may also provide a boost.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Cold and flu tablets can SHRINK the brain and slow down thinking
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers found the drugs block the chemical acetylcholine, which is involved in the transmission of electrical impulses between nerve cells.
Health & Fitness | Health News
One Way to Grow A Happy Brain
Can you grow your own happiness? According to recent research, you sure can with just one simple practice. Find out what it is and how to get started today!
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Metaphors That Make Us Feel Clean and Dirty, Literally
Liars who want mouthwash? Research shows that our brains can’t always separate what’s reality and what’s metaphor, says Robert M. Sapolsky.
Health & Fitness | Health News
BBC - Future - The enormous power of the unconscious brain
A lot of the things we do in everyday life don’t need to involve our conscious mind. In many cases, the more we use it, the less effective we become.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Snake Venom Could Hold Key To Alzheimer's Breakthrough - PsyBlog
The snake venom originally came from a pit viper, which is found in South and Central America.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Study reveals new link between brain and fat-burning circuit
A new study in animal models, led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is the first to show that oxygen sensing in the brain has a role ...
Health & Fitness | Health News
Salk Institute say the human brain can store 10 TIMES the memories previously thought
A team at the Salk Institute in California, discovered that, on average, one synapse can hold about 4.7 bits of information. This means that the human brain has a capacity of one petabyte.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Novel support for brain science theory with deep Brown roots
After University of Chicago neuroscientists analyzed data from David Sheinberg at Brown, they produced a new paper in Nature Neuroscience that offers novel support for a theory proposed at Brown in 1982
Health & Fitness | Health News
Migraines triggered by protein deep in the brain | New Scientist
A peptide that over-excites neurons controlling facial feeling is to blame for migraines – so drugs that constrict blood vessels won't work
Health & Fitness | Health News
Brain Most Sensitive to New Memories and Stress At This Stage of Life
In this phase of life the brain is especially sensitive to new memories, social stress. The brain may be particularly sensitive to new memories and social stress in adolescence, a new study has found. All brains have the ability to
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Researchers erase memories in mice with a beam of light
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with member affiliations to several institutions in the U.S. and Japan has developed a new device that allowed them to alter the spines on a neural dendrite in a mouse brain that was first modified naturally by an
Health & Fitness | Health News
The Sleeping Position That's Best for Brain Health?
While you're sleeping, your brain restores, recharges and cleanses itself of brain toxins. Research has found the best sleeping position for this.
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Missing link found between brain, immune system; major disease implications
In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist. The discovery could have profound implications for disea
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The Difference Between Being Really Smart ... And Being A Genius
Most people tend to think of high IQ and genius as virtually the same, but they’re far from it.
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The New IP - IPv4 vs. IPv6 in the New IP
We're effectively out of free IPv4 addresses. Four billion addresses seemed like enough when there were only a handful of computers on the network. Now that we expect to connect all 7.2 billion humans, we simply must move to IPv6 and its 340 trillion avai
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Scientist transmits message into mind of colleague 5,000 miles away using brain waves
Researchers led by the University of Barcelona used EEG headsets (pictured) to record electrical activity in the brain, and convert the words ‘hola’ and ‘ciao’ into binary.
