Psychology & Psychiatry
What your friends' brains look like when they think of you
If you ever wondered what's going on in your friends' brains when they think about you, new research may provide a clue.
Nov 07, 2019
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Neuroscience
Bilingual babies' brains are 'prepped' to respond to sign language
Babies raised listening to two spoken languages have a different brain response to British Sign Language compared to monolinguals, even if they have no previous sign language experience, a study from Goldsmiths, University ...
Oct 30, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Does aging make our brains less efficient?
We are an aging population. Demographic projections predict the largest population growth will be in the oldest age group—one study predicted a doubling of people age 65 and over between 2012 and 2050. Understanding aging ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Neuroscience
Your brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept
As students learn a new concept, measuring how well they grasp it has often depended on traditional paper and pencil tests. Dartmouth researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm, which can be used to measure how ...
Jun 21, 2019
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Neuroscience
Sleep history predicts late-life Alzheimer's pathology
Sleep patterns can predict the accumulation of Alzheimer's pathology proteins later in life, according to a new study of older men and women published in JNeurosci. These findings could lead to new sleep-based early diagnosis ...
Jun 17, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain activation provides individual-level prediction of bipolar disorder risk
Patterns of brain activation during reward anticipation may help identify people most at risk for developing bipolar spectrum disorders (BPSD), according to a study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. ...
Jun 12, 2019
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Neuroscience
Measurement of thoughts during knowledge acquisition
In a recent learning study, researchers were able to show that new conceptual information is stored along spatial dimensions in the form of a mental map located in the hippocampus. Together with colleagues from the Donders ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Neuroscience
New brain research challenges our understanding of sleep
An international study headed by researchers from Aarhus University has for the first time uncovered the large-scale brain patterns and networks in the brain which control sleep, providing knowledge which in the future may ...
Mar 22, 2019
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Neuroscience
Our brains reveal our choices before we're even aware of them, study finds
A new UNSW study suggests we have less control over our personal choices than we think, and that unconscious brain activity determines our choices well before we are aware of them.
Mar 06, 2019
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Autism spectrum disorders
Brain response to mom's voice differs in kids with autism
For most children, the sound of their mother's voice triggers brain activity patterns distinct from those triggered by an unfamiliar voice. But the unique brain response to mom's voice is greatly diminished in children with ...
Feb 26, 2019
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