An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The analysis of how different ...
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A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain develops while they're awake.
Dec 16, 2025
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The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a family history of substance ...
Nov 21, 2025
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Juvenile fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder that mainly affects adolescent girls. A study led by the University of Barcelona shows that resilience—the ability to cope adaptively with adversity—does not reduce the physical ...
Jul 2, 2025
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Psychosis often begins not with characteristic disturbances of the mind—delusions like paranoia or hallucinations—but with disturbances in the way we move our body. For researchers like Indiana University Assistant Professor ...
Jun 25, 2025
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We have all experienced boredom—that feeling of waning interest or decreased mental stimulation. Eventually we lose focus, we disengage. Time seems to pass slowly, and we may even start to feel restless. Whether it be watching ...
May 20, 2025
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The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not engaged in physical activities, such as relaxing, resting or daydreaming. This brain network has ...
Our brains seamlessly process streams of visual information from the world around us while simultaneously understanding the causal structure of events. These essential cognitive functions, known as external sensory processing ...
Jun 19, 2024
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In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and ...
May 1, 2024
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The 2024 Academy Awards recognized several amazing acting performances, including Cillian Murphy's portrayal of the physicist Robert Oppenheimer, which won him the award for Best Actor. But what is it that drives such peak ...
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