Neuroscience
How the brain responds to surprising events
When your brain needs you to pay attention to something important, one way it can do that is to send out a burst of noradrenaline, according to a new MIT study.
Jun 1, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study links thalamus inhibition in adolescence to long-lasting cortical abnormalities
A team of Columbia University researchers has reported new evidence that cognitive abnormalities seen in neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia may be traceable to altered activity in the thalamus during adolescence, ...
May 23, 2022
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Medical research
Both nature and nurture contribute to signatures of socioeconomic status in the brain
Your education, your job, your income, the neighborhood you live in: Together these factors are considered to represent socioeconomic status (SES) and contribute to a variety of health and social outcomes, from physical and ...
May 18, 2022
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Neuroscience
Prefrontal microglia act on cognitive development during adolescence
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a brain region that regulates cognitive functions, and a distinct feature of the region is protracted adolescent maturation, to acquire mature cognitive abilities in adulthood. In a new report ...
Neuroscience
How the brain encodes social rank and 'winning mindset'
If you're reaching for the last piece of pizza at a party and see another hand going for it at the same time, your next move probably depends both on how you feel and whom the hand belongs to. Your little sister—you might ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Neuroscience
Value and neural representations during goal-directed behavior
In its hedonistic aspects, value is often associated with reward. However, when circumstances change, value must also change. In this work, G. Castegnetti and a research team at the Institute of cognitive neuroscience and ...
Neuroscience
New experiences enhance learning by resetting key brain circuit
A study of spatial learning in mice shows that exposure to new experiences dampens established representations in the brain's hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, allowing the mice to learn new navigation strategies. The study, ...
Feb 24, 2021
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Neuroscience
Your brain needs to be ready to remember?
What happens in the hippocampus even before people attempt to form memories may impact whether they remember.
Jun 1, 2020
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Neuroscience
Brain zaps boost memory in people over 60, study finds
Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study found.
Apr 8, 2019
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Neuroscience
Deep stimulation improves cognitive control by augmenting brain rhythms
In a new study that could improve the therapeutic efficacy of deep-brain stimulation (DBS) for psychiatric disorders such as depression, a team of scientists shows that, when DBS is applied to a specific brain region, it ...
Apr 4, 2019
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