Neuroscience
Mental shortcuts, not emotion, may guide irrational decisions
If you participate in a study in my lab, the Huettel Lab at Duke, you may be asked to play an economic game.
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Neuroscience
New brain mapping technique highlights relationship between connectivity and IQ
A new and relatively simple technique for mapping the wiring of the brain has shown a correlation between how well connected an individual's brain regions are and their intelligence, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Jan 2, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Curcumin's ability to fight Alzheimer's studied
One of the most promising new treatments for Alzheimer's disease may already be in your kitchen. Curcumin, a natural product found in the spice turmeric, has been used by many Asian cultures for centuries, and a new study ...
Jan 13, 2015
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Neuroscience
Researchers debunk the IQ myth
After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, a Western University-led research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one's intelligence quotient or IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly ...
Dec 19, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Alcohol breaks brain connections needed to process social cues
(Medical Xpress)—Alcohol intoxication reduces communication between two areas of the brain that work together to properly interpret and respond to social signals, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at ...
Aug 29, 2013
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Neuroscience
Why we look at the puppet, not the ventriloquist
(Medical Xpress)—As ventriloquists have long known, your eyes can sometimes tell your brain where a sound is coming from more convincingly than your ears can.
Aug 30, 2013
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Neuroscience
New brain scan study discovers possible biological basis of visual snow syndrome
Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London have used a novel approach to show that the patterns of activity in two brain chemical systems—glutamate and serotonin—are ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Neuroscience
Researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains
By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the National Institutes of Health saw the first, long-sought evidence that our brains may drain some waste out through lymphatic vessels, the body's sewer system. ...
Oct 3, 2017
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Neuroscience
Do you see what I see? Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive
A new technique developed by neuroscientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough can, for the first time, reconstruct images of what people perceive based on their brain activity gathered by EEG.
Feb 22, 2018
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists get at the roots of pessimism
Many patients with neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety or depression experience negative moods that lead them to focus on the possible downside of a given situation more than the potential benefit.
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