New research reveals exactly how the human brain adapts to injury

For the first time, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts ...

Neuroscience created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Impaired coordination of brain activity in autism involves local, as well as long-range, signaling

A study based at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that the local functional connectivity of the brain – the extent to which the activity of within a small brain region ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How do happiness and sadness circuits contribute to bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder is a severe mood disorder characterized by unpredictable and dramatic mood swings between the highs of mania and lows of depression. These mood episodes occur among periods of 'normal mood', termed euthymia.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New tool to help brain surgeons, one step closer to operating room

(Medical Xpress)—A new tool that could allow for faster, more comprehensive testing of brain tissue during surgery successfully identified the cancer type, grade and tumor margins in five brain surgery ...

Surgery created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows cognitive benefit of lifelong bilingualism

Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published in the January 9 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Compared to the ...

Neuroscience created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain changes found in small study of former NFL players

(HealthDay)—In a small study of former NFL players, about one quarter were found to have "mild cognitive impairment," or problems with thinking and memory, a rate slightly higher than expected in the general ...

Neuroscience created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Functional MRI can improve prediction of CBT success

(HealthDay)—Results of functional brain imaging can greatly improve prediction of which patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) will benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), according to a study ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroscience study reveals new link between basic math skills and PSAT math success

(Medical Xpress)—New research from Western University provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very basic single digit arithmetic (5+2=7 or 7-3=4) are better equipped to score higher on the Preliminary ...

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Your brain on Big Bird: Sesame Street helps to reveal patterns of neural development

Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.

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Imaging study examines effect of fructose on brain regions that regulate appetite

In a study examining possible factors regarding the associations between fructose consumption and weight gain, brain magnetic resonance imaging of study participants indicated that ingestion of glucose but not fructose reduced ...

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Face the facts: Neural integration transforms unconscious face detection into conscious face perception

(Medical Xpress)—The apparent ease and immediacy of human perception is deceptive, requiring highly complex neural operations to determine the category of objects in a visual scene. Nevertheless, the human ...

Neuroscience created Dec 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Discovery could eventually help diagnose and treat chronic pain

More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. But treating and studying chronic pain is complex and presents many challenges. Scientists have long searched for a method to objectively measure ...

Medical research created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain imaging insight into cannabis as a pain killer

The pain relief offered by cannabis varies greatly between individuals, a brain imaging study carried out at the University of Oxford suggests.

Medical research created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New test could help diagnose Alzheimer's disease in live patients

The patient turned 40 over the summer and was already having symptoms that made her neurologist wonder whether she had Alzheimer's disease, the deadly, mind-killing dementia that usually attacks far older people.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Neuroscience: The extraordinary ease of ordinal series

Familiar categories whose members appear in orderly sequences are processed differently than others in the brain, according to new research published by David Eagleman in the open access journal Frontiers in Neuroscience on Dec ...

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