What makes a good reader? First, you have to know how to read the words on a page and understand them—but there's a higher-level step to reading comprehension. You have to tie together the words over time, maintaining their ...
Nov 6, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—Joint research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychology and Auburn University indicates that brain scans show signs of autism that could eventually support behavior-based diagnosis ...
Oct 17, 2013
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When individuals with psychopathy imagine others in pain, brain areas necessary for feeling empathy and concern for others fail to become active and be connected to other important regions involved in affective processing ...
Sep 24, 2013
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For the first time, scientists at Toronto Rehab have found that in people with chronic moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), atrophy (shrinkage) in the brain may be countered by participating in environmental enrichment ...
Sep 24, 2013
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As children head back to school this week, new research by the University of Leeds has shown that children who eat breakfast are more likely to have higher school grades.
Sep 4, 2013
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A person's intensity of Facebook use can be predicted by activity in a reward-related area of the brain, according to a new study published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Aug 29, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—With a unique focus on methodology, Huck Institutes researchers studying rat behavior show that chronic, unpredictable stress during adolescence causes long-term changes in cognitive bias and coping response.
Aug 26, 2013
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Closed circuit television camera operators may adopt an 'accuracy over speed' approach when viewing potentially suspicious behaviour, new research has revealed. The study, led by Nottingham Trent University, involved monitoring ...
Aug 23, 2013
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Extroverts may be more outgoing and cheerful in part because of their brain chemistry, reports a study by Cornell neuroscientists.
Jul 11, 2013
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Is there a brain area for mind-wandering? For religious experience? For reorienting attention? A recent study casts serious doubt on the evidence for these ideas, and rewrites the rules for neuroimaging.
Jul 10, 2013
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