Health
Dance your way to better health
(HealthDay)—Two very different studies show that dancing is more than just fun. It can keep your mind sharp and your heart healthy.
Jul 15, 2019
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News tagged with neuroscience
Neuroscience
Researchers link aging with changes in brain networks related to cognition
Functional regions within the brain become less distinct and interconnected in the elderly over time, especially in those networks related to attention span and cognition. The finding, published by researchers at Duke-NUS ...
Jul 12, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain activation provides individual-level prediction of bipolar disorder risk
Patterns of brain activation during reward anticipation may help identify people most at risk for developing bipolar spectrum disorders (BPSD), according to a study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. ...
Jun 12, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Inflammation induces anhedonia in women but not men
Inflammation reduces the brain's response to rewards in women, but not in men, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier. Reduced activity in the brain's ...
May 15, 2019
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Medical research
Does a bigger brain make you smarter?
Increasing the size of neural circuits in the brain can boost learning performance, but this increased connectivity also has the potential to impede learning, new research has revealed.
May 14, 2019
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Autism spectrum disorders
Behavioral disorders in kids with autism linked to reduced brain connectivity
More than a quarter of children with autism spectrum disorder are also diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders. For the first time, Yale researchers have identified a possible biological cause: a key mechanism that regulates ...
Apr 19, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Online tool empowers kids with social learning deficits via real-time, virtual world training and interactions
After five years of proven success with Charisma(TM) for Youth—an evidence-based virtual training program to learn and practice social skills in real time with trained clinicians—the Brain Performance Institute at the ...
Apr 10, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Secure relationship with new parents reduces anxiety in adopted children
In children who have experienced early institutional care, a strong relationship with their adoptive parents plays a positive role in brain development and the child's long-term mental health, according to a new study, published ...
Apr 3, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How team sports change a child's brain
Adult depression has long been associated with shrinkage of the hippocampus, a brain region that plays an important role in memory and response to stress. Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has linked ...
Mar 21, 2019
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Neuroscience
A new neuro-inspired system for pattern detection
A scientific team comprising researchers from the Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB) at UPM, University of La Laguna (ULL) and Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex System (IFISC, CSIC-UIB) has developed ...
Feb 21, 2019
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