Neuroscience
Neuroscientists unlock shared brain codes
A team of neuroscientists at Dartmouth College has shown that different individuals' brains use the same, common neural code to recognize complex visual images.
Oct 20, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study reveals areas of the brain impacted by PTSD
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the VA Boston Healthcare System are one step closer to understanding the specific nature of brain changes associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Jan 23, 2017
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Women anticipate negative experiences differently to men
Men and women differ in the way they anticipate an unpleasant emotional experience, which influences the effectiveness with which that experience is committed to memory, according to new research.
Aug 23, 2011
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Neuroscience
Maternal socialization, not biology, shapes child brain activity
Children of mothers with clinical depression are at three times greater risk to develop depression themselves than are their low-risk peers. Researchers are working to understand the neural underpinnings of the risk, and ...
Mar 23, 2022
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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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Boosting memory performance by finding amplitude of brain waves and speeding oscillations
The brain is made of millions of cells called neurons, that send electrical messages to talk to each other in patterns of vertical electric activity called oscillations. By inducing them first, then finding the amplitude ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Why animals don't have infrared vision
On rare occasion, the light-sensing photoreceptor cells in the eye misfire and signal to the brain as if they have captured photons, when in reality they haven't. For years this phenomenon remained a mystery. Reporting in ...
Jun 9, 2011
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Neuroscience
The brain's zoom button: Study describes how the brain handles spatial resolution
Everybody knows how to zoom in and out on an online map, to get the level of resolution you need to get you where you want to go. Now researchers have discovered a key mechanism that can act like a zoom button in the brain, ...
Nov 17, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The science behind many antidepressants appears to be backwards, researchers say
The science behind many antidepressant medications appears to be backwards, say the authors of a paper that challenges the prevailing ideas about the nature of depression and some of the world's most commonly prescribed medications.
Feb 18, 2015
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More than a sign of sleepiness, yawning may cool the brain
Though considered a mark of boredom or fatigue, yawning might also be a trait of the hot-headed. Literally.
Sep 19, 2011
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