In the insect brain, dopamine-releasing nerve cells are crucial to the formation of both punished, rewarded memories
Children quickly learn to avoid negative situations and seek positive ones. But humans are not the only species capable of remembering positive and negative events; even the small brain of a fruit fly has ...
Genetics
Jul 18, 2012 |
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Sadness increases subjective experience of pain
(HealthDay) -- Sadness increases subjective pain ratings and affects pain-evoked cortical activity, according to a study published in the July issue of The Journal of Pain.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2012 |
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Scientists proved that 'blindsight' is used in everyday life scenes
The visual information from eyes is sent into the brain unconsciously even if you are not aware. One of examples of unconscious seeing is a phenomenon of "blindsight" [Subjects have no awareness, but their brains can see ...
Neuroscience
Jun 28, 2012 |
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Researchers find link between neuritin gene activity and stress induced depression
(Medical Xpress) -- Research teams from the US and Korea have together been studying depression and other mood disorders and have found that chronic stress can block a gene whose job it is to maintain healthy neuron connections ...
Neuroscience
Jun 27, 2012 |
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Freud's theory of unconscious conflict linked to anxiety symptoms in new brain research
An experiment that Sigmund Freud could never have imagined 100 years ago may help lend scientific support for one of his key theories, and help connect it with current neuroscience.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 17, 2012 |
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Tense film scenes trigger brain activity: New ways to predict how audiences will respond
Visual and auditory stimuli that elicit high levels of engagement and emotional response can be linked to reliable patterns of brain activity, a team of researchers from The City College of New York and Columbia University ...
Neuroscience
Jun 14, 2012 |
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Training people to inhibit movements can reduce risk-taking
New research from psychologists at the Universities of Exeter and Cardiff shows that people can train their brains to become less impulsive, resulting in less risk-taking during gambling. The research could pave the way for ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 14, 2012 |
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Sweet minty relief for cough
Millions of Americans reach for their cough drops or syrup at the first sign of a cough. However, scientists are unsure if and how these popular remedies work. Now, new findings from the Monell Center suggest ...
Medications
Jun 11, 2012 |
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Hear to see: New method for the treatment of visual field defects
Patients who are blind in one side of their visual field benefit from presentation of sounds on the affected side. After passively hearing sounds for an hour, their visual detection of light stimuli in the blind half of their ...
Neuroscience
May 30, 2012 |
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Brain activity revealed when watching a feature film
Human brain functions have been studied in the past using relatively simple stimuli, such as pictures of faces and isolated sounds or words. Researchers from Aalto University Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational ...
Neuroscience
May 29, 2012 |
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Doubt cast on usefulness of 'Sensory' therapies for autism
(HealthDay) -- Sensory therapies using brushes, swings and other play equipment are increasingly used by occupational therapists to treat children with developmental issues such as autism, but a large pediatricians ...
Autism spectrum disorders
May 28, 2012 |
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Taking it all in: Revealing how we sense things
McGill physiology research team sheds light on how the brain processes what we sense.
Neuroscience
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Study marks breakthrough in IOP regulation in fight against glaucoma
A six-year collaboration between two faculty members of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has yielded new insight regarding the regulation of intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma ...
Ophthalmology
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Seeing Beyond the Visual Cortex
(Medical Xpress) -- It's a chilling thought--losing the sense of sight because of severe injury or damage to the brain's visual cortex. But, is it possible to train a damaged or injured brain to "see" again after such a catastrophic ...
Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Study links intrauterine antipsychotic medication exposure to lower scores on infant neuromotor test
Among 6-month-old infants, a history of intrauterine antipsychotic medication exposure was associated with significantly lower scores on a standard test of neuromotor performance, according to a report published Online First ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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