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Arguments in the home linked with babies' brain functioning

Being exposed to arguments between parents is associated with the way babies' brains process emotional tone of voice, according to a new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Ps ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers link Gulf War Illness to physical changes in brain fibers that process pain

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have found what they say is evidence that veterans who suffer from "Gulf War Illness" have physical changes in their brains not seen in unaffected individuals. Brain ...

Neuroscience created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research shows how two brain areas interact to trigger divergent emotional behaviors

New research from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine for the first time explains exactly how two brain regions interact to promote emotionally motivated behaviors associated with anxiety ...

Neuroscience created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Toxicity map' of brain may help protect cognition for cancer patients

New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer.

Cancer created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Brain waves' challenge area-specific view of brain activity

Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas – when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologists led by David Alexander and ...

Neuroscience created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Difficulty in recognizing faces in autism linked to performance in a group of neurons

Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a brain anomaly that explains why some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces—a deficit linked to the impairments in social ...

Neuroscience created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single concussion may cause lasting brain damage

A single concussion may cause lasting structural damage to the brain, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research pinpoints, prevents stress-induced drug relapse in rats

All too often, stress turns addiction recovery into relapse, but years of basic brain research have provided scientists with insight that might allow them develop a medicine to help. A new study in the journal Neuron pinpoi ...

Neuroscience created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One region, two functions: Brain cells' multitasking key to understanding overall brain function

A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into categories, according to a new study by researchers at the University ...

Neuroscience created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Amputee phantom pain linked to brain retaining picture of missing limb

Changes in the brain following amputation have been linked to pain arising from the missing limb, called 'phantom pain', in an Oxford University brain imaging study.

Neuroscience created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Network' analysis of the brain may explain features of autism

A look at how the brain processes information finds a distinct pattern in children with autism spectrum disorders. Using EEGs to track the brain's electrical cross-talk, researchers from Boston Children's ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroscience shows why not everyone learns from their mistakes

(Medical Xpress)—Some people do not learn from their mistakes because of the way their brain works, according to research led by an academic at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Neuroscience created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?

Humans have at least two functional networks in their cerebral cortex not found in rhesus monkeys. This means that new brain networks were likely added in the course of evolution from primate ancestor to human. These findings, ...

Neuroscience created Feb 22, 2013 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Language protein differs in males, females

Male rat pups have more of a specific brain protein associated with language development than females, according to a study published February 20 in The Journal of Neuroscience. The study also found sex differences in the ...

Neuroscience created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blind brain receives 'visual' cues to identify shape

A significant number of blind humans, not unlike bats and dolphins, can localize silent objects in their environment simply by making clicking sounds with their mouth and listening to the returning echoes. Some of these individuals ...

Neuroscience created Feb 18, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast