http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Inhibitory control can be boosted with a mild form of brain stimulation, according to a study published in the June 2011 issue of Neuroimage, Elsevier's Journal of Brain Function. The study's findings indicate that non-invasive intervention can greatly improve patients' inhibitory control. Conducted by a research team led by Dr Chi-Hung Juan of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University in Taiwan, the research was sponsored by the National Science Council in Taiwan, the UK Medical Research Council, the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, and a Fulbright Award. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-noninvasive-brain-curb-impulsivity.html Neuroscience Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:27:51 EST news227359629 (Medical Xpress) -- A new scientific theory on what we learn to pay attention to and what we learn to ignore could turn 30 years of research on its head. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-attention.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:24:00 EST news226743820 Neuroeconomic research at the University of Pennsylvania has conclusively identified a part of the brain that is necessary for making everyday decisions about value. Previous functional magnetic imaging studies, during which researchers use a powerful magnet to determine which parts of a subjects brain are most active while doing a task, have suggested that the ventromedial frontal cortex, or VMF, plays an evaluative role during decision making. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-region-brain-decisions-economic.html Neuroscience Wed, 18 May 2011 09:38:23 EST news224930251 Adversity, we are told, heightens our senses, imprinting sights and sounds precisely in our memories. But new Weizmann Institute research, which appeared in Nature Neuroscience this week, suggests the exact opposite may be the case: Perceptions learned in an aversive context are not as sharp as those learned in other circumstances. The findings, which hint that this tendency is rooted in our species' evolution, may help to explain how post-traumatic stress syndrome and other anxiety disorders develop in some people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-scientists-adversity-dulls-perceptions.html Neuroscience Wed, 11 May 2011 09:26:24 EST news224324750