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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
Jun 11, 2012 |
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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
Mar 08, 2013 |
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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
May 13, 2013 |
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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
Oct 03, 2011 |
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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
Apr 04, 2012 |
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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
Jan 30, 2013 |
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Book by University of Oregon psychologists opens eyes on betrayal
"Betrayal violates us," write University of Oregon psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell in the preface of a new book that tackles the devastating act and probes the deep underpinnings of why people cover it up.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 27, 2013 |
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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
Apr 23, 2013 |
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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
May 09, 2013 |
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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
Apr 18, 2013 |
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