Neuroscience research has made incredible strides toward revealing the inner workings of our brains – how we make decisions, plan for the future or experience emotions – thanks in part to technological advances, but barriers ...
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The area in which an epileptic seizure starts in the brain, may be small but it reaches other parts of the brain at distances of over ten centimeters. That distant activity, in turn, influences the epileptic core, according ...
Sep 19, 2017
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Brain stimulation could be used to treat cognitive deficits frequently associated with schizophrenia, according to a new study from King's College London.
Jul 24, 2017
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After a traumatic brain injury, when do the first indications of possible long-term complications—including dementia—appear and is it possible to stave them off?
Jun 21, 2017
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When faced with a tempting choice, it can be hard to stop and think through the potential consequences, but new research suggests that framing the choice as a sequence of events can help us exercise patience by prompting ...
Jun 6, 2017
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If you participate in a study in my lab, the Huettel Lab at Duke, you may be asked to play an economic game.
Mar 31, 2017
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An international network of neurologists, geneticists and researchers led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC is cracking the human genetic code so that one day people could check their "brain health" in the same way they ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Depression affects more than 15 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the U.S. population, each year. It is the leading cause of disability for those between the ages of 15 and 44.
Mar 27, 2017
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Judges and juries always ponder whether people act "knowingly" or "recklessly" during criminal activity—and neuroscience has had little to add to the conversation.
Mar 13, 2017
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Despite diagnoses for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) occurring in a reported 11 percent of U.S. school-aged kids, clinicians still don't fully understand the underlying causes of this common condition. Now ...
Mar 8, 2017
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