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Grammar errors? The brain detects them even when you are unaware

Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University of Oregon neuroscientists have captured elusive hard evidence that people indeed detect ...

Neuroscience created May 13, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Women altering menstruation cycles in large numbers, study shows

A surprisingly large number of women 18 or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a team of University of Oregon researchers ...

Health created May 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain biology tied to social reorientation during entry to adolescence

A specific region of the brain is in play when children consider their identity and social status as they transition into adolescence—that often-turbulent time of reaching puberty and entering middle school, ...

Neuroscience created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First steps of synapse building is captured in live zebra fish embryos

Using spinning disk microscopy on barely day-old zebra fish embryos, University of Oregon scientists have gained a new window on how synapse-building components move to worksites in the central nervous system.

Neuroscience created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chinese mindfulness meditation prompts double positive punch in brain white matter

Scientists studying the Chinese mindfulness meditation known as integrative body-mind training (IBMT) say they've confirmed and expanded their findings on changes in structural efficiency of white matter in the brain that ...

Neuroscience created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light switch added to gene tool opens new view of cell development

University of Oregon scientists collaborating with an Oregon company that synthesizes antisense Morpholinos for genetic research have developed a UV light-activated on-off switch for the vital gene-blocking ...

Genetics created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Worm-tracking challenge leads to new tool for brain research

Using new optical equipment, a team of 11 researchers put roundworms into a world of virtual reality, monitored both their behavior and brain activity and gained unexpected information on how the organism's brain operates ...

Neuroscience created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experience puts the personal stamp on a place in memory

Seeing and exploring both are necessary for stability in a person's episodic memory when taking in a new experience, say University of Oregon researchers.

Neuroscience created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Institutional betrayal magnifies post-trauma effects of unwanted sexual activity

A study of 345 female university students found that 233 of them had experienced at least one unwanted sexual experience in their lifetime, and 46 percent of those victims also experienced betrayal by the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 08, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study highlights important role that patients play in determining outcomes

When it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs.

Health created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mindfulness meditation heightens a listener's musical engagement

When De'Anthony Thomas returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl, says University of Oregon researcher Frank Diaz, Thomas put Ducks fans into a heightened zone of engagement for ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cognitive deficits from concussions still present after two months

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 to a study at the University of ...

Health created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Begin early: Researchers say water with meals may encourage wiser choices

Water could change the way we eat. That's the conclusion of new research by T. Bettina Cornwell of the University of Oregon and Anna R. McAlister of Michigan State University. Their findings appear online ...

Health created May 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of zebra fish mouth formation may speak to Fraser syndrome hearing loss

Using mutant zebra fish, researchers studying the earliest formation of cartilage of the mouth believe they may have gotten a look at a mechanism involved in a genetic defect linked to Fraser syndrome deafness in humans.

Genetics created Jul 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Partner aggression in high-risk families affects parenting beginning at birth

Bickering spouses may need to clean up their act. New research at the University of Oregon finds that the level of aggression between partners around the time when a child is born impacts how a mom will be parenting three ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0