Neuroscience
Brain wiring quiets the voice inside your head
During a normal conversation, your brain is constantly adjusting the volume to soften the sound of your own voice and boost the voices of others in the room.
Sep 3, 2013
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Neuroscience
Neurologists report unique form of musical hallucinations
One night when she was trying to fall asleep, a 60-year-old woman suddenly began hearing music, as if a radio were playing at the back of her head.
Aug 20, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Inner speech speaks volumes about the brain
Whether you're reading the paper or thinking through your schedule for the day, chances are that you're hearing yourself speak even if you're not saying words out loud. This internal speech—the monologue you "hear" inside ...
Jul 16, 2013
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Neuroscience
Brain and Mind Institute-led research team wins coveted Human Brain Mapping Hackathon
A team of researchers fueled predominantly by Western's Brain and Mind Institute won a top prize in the Hackathon this past week at the 19th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Seattle, Washington.
Jul 1, 2013
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Neuroscience
Researchers discover link between fear, sound perception
Anyone who's ever heard a Beethoven sonata or a Beatles song knows how powerfully sound can affect our emotions. But it can work the other way as well – our emotions can actually affect how we hear and process sound. When ...
Jun 30, 2013
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Neuroscience
Brain stimulation aims to speed up tinnitus treatment
(Medical Xpress)—A combination of brain stimulation and video games may be the key to speeding up treatment for tinnitus sufferers.
Jun 12, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A rather complex complex: Brain scans reveal internal conflict during Jung's word association test
Over 100 years ago psychologist Carl Gustav Jung penned his theory of 'complexes' where he explained how unconscious psychological issues can be triggered by people, events, or Jung believed, through word association tests.
Jun 10, 2013
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Neuroscience
Songbirds may give insight to nature vs. nuture
On June 3rd, JoVE will publish a research technique that allows neural imaging of auditory stimuli in songbirds via MRI. The technique, developed by Dr. Annemie Van der Linden and her laboratory at the University of Antwerp ...
Jun 3, 2013
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Neuroscience
Cortical microcircuitry: Can we predict function from structure?
(Medical Xpress)—Neuroscientists have sought to explain diseases like schizophrenia and autism in terms of abnormal development of cortical microcircuitry. Before leaping to high level functional conclusions from low level ...
Neuroscience
Help at hand for people with schizophrenia
How can healthy people who hear voices help schizophrenics? Finding the answer for this is at the centre of research conducted at the University of Bergen.
May 24, 2013
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