Psychology & Psychiatry
Children cannot ignore what they hear when detecting emotions
Children determine emotion by what they hear, rather than what they see, according to new research.
Jan 26, 2021
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Neuroscience
Neuronal recycling: This is how our brain allows us to read
Letters, syllables, words and sentences—these are spatially arranged sets of symbols that acquire meaning when we read them. But is there an area and cognitive mechanism in our brain that is specifically devoted to reading? ...
Jan 21, 2021
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Autism spectrum disorders
Preemie-born parents linked to children with autism
In a study of medical registry records of nearly 400,000 parent-child pairs from Denmark, a Yale School of Public Health study found that parents who were themselves born very prematurely were nearly twice as likely to have ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Neuroscience
Sleep is irreplaceable for the recovery of the brain
Sleep is ubiquitous in animals and humans and vital for healthy functioning. Thus, sleep after training improves performance on various tasks in comparison to equal periods of active wakefulness. However, it has been unclear ...
Jan 7, 2021
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Neuroscience
Technology lets clinicians objectively detect tinnitus for first time
A technology called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) can be used to objectively measure tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, according to a new study published November 18 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Medical research
An unconventional ion channel
Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have identified the first mechanosensitive ion channel to be found in an intracellular vesicle system. It responds to concentration changes within the vesicle, ...
Nov 13, 2020
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Neuroscience
Team makes breakthrough discovery on brain cortex functionality
A team of researchers from UTSA's Neurosciences Institute is challenging the historical belief that the organization of the cortical circuit of GABAergic neurons is exclusively local.
Nov 11, 2020
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Neuroscience
Myelin optimizes information processing in the brain
In a conversation, we can easily understand and distinguish individual words. In the brain, the temporal structure of speech with its rapid succession of sounds and pauses and its characteristic rhythm is encoded by electrical ...
Nov 5, 2020
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Neuroscience
Newborn brains lack maturity to process emotions as adults do
Humans aren't born with mature brain circuitry that attaches emotions to the things they see or hear in their environment, a new study shows.
Oct 19, 2020
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Neuroscience
New study reveals how the nervous system mutes or boosts sensory information to make behavioral decisions
Fruit flies may be able to teach researchers a thing or two about artificial intelligence.
Oct 15, 2020
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