Kessler Foundation researchers have authored a new article that has implications for our understanding of the relationship between cognitive fatigue and effort and reward. The study, which was conducted in healthy participants, ...
Sep 5, 2017
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(HealthDay)—A multivariate pattern of stressor-evoked brain activity can predict individual differences in blood pressure (BP) reactivity, according to a study published online Aug. 23 in the Journal of the American Heart ...
Aug 24, 2017
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From students stressing over exams to workers facing possible layoffs, worrying about the future is a normal and universal experience. But when people's anticipation of bad things to come starts interfering with daily life, ...
Jul 26, 2017
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Pain sensitivity associated with alcohol withdrawal may activate the same brain region in both drinking and non-drinking mice, finds a study published in eNeuro.
Jul 24, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have high levels of brain inflammation, according to a study published online June 21 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Jun 23, 2017
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A lack of sleep makes everything harder. Focusing, finishing assignments, and coping with everyday stress can become monumental tasks.
Apr 18, 2017
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Brain researchers at ETH Zurich and other universities have shown for the first time that a region of the brain associated with empathy only activates very weakly in autistic people. This knowledge could help to develop new ...
Apr 3, 2017
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Can a mouse meditate? A new study suggests the answer is ... kind of.
Feb 21, 2017
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Emily Rogalski, '07 PhD, is part of a team of scientists taking a glass half-full approach to studying cognitive aging. Instead of focusing on factors that can lead to dementia and neurodegenerative disease as people grow ...
Dec 12, 2016
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Heavy alcohol use during adolescence alters the development of brain, according to a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital. Cortical thinning was observable in young people who ...
Dec 8, 2016
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