Neuroscience
Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions
Brain regions exchange information by sending and receiving signals through a network of nerve connections.
Sep 20, 2019
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News tagged with brain regions
Psychology & Psychiatry
Study examines how people with psychopathic traits control their 'dark impulses'
People with psychopathic traits are predisposed toward antisocial behavior that can result in "unsuccessful" outcomes such as incarceration. However, many individuals with psychopathic traits are able to control their antisocial ...
Sep 19, 2019
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Neuroscience
Study finds hub linking movement and motivation in the brain
Our everyday lives rely on planned movement through the environment to achieve goals. A new study by MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory identifies a well-connected brain region as a crucial ...
Sep 19, 2019
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Neuroscience
Learning to read boosts the visual brain
Reading is a recent invention in the history of human culture—too recent for dedicated brain networks to have evolved specifically for it. How, then, do humans accomplish this remarkable feat? As we learn to read, a brain ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Medical research
New insights into how astrocytes help the brain process information
A collaboration between the laboratories of Vincent Bonin (NERF, empowered by VIB, imec and KU Leuven) and Matthew Holt (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research) reveals that noradrenaline plays a key role in how ...
Sep 12, 2019
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Health
Study shows that drinking tea improves brain health
A recent study led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) revealed that regular tea drinkers have better organized brain regions—and this is associated with healthy cognitive function—compared ...
Sep 12, 2019
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Neuroscience
Brain circuit controls individual responses to temptation in rats
Differences in a key brain circuit may suggest why some individuals are less able than others to resist tempting cues, according to a study in rats published today in eLife.
Sep 10, 2019
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Neuroscience
How brain rhythms organize our visual perception
To investigate how information of different visual features is processed in the brain, the neuroscientists from the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute of Primate Research in Göttingen, Germany, the Iran University ...
Sep 09, 2019
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Neuroscience
Watching music move through the brain
Scientists have observed how the human brain represents a familiar piece of music, according to research published in JNeurosci. Their results suggest that listening to and remembering music involve different cognitive processes.
Sep 09, 2019
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Neuroscience
'Superagers' over 80 have the memory and brain connectivity of twenty-somethings
Research published in the journal Cerebral Cortex has shown that stronger functional connectivity—that is, communication among neurons in various networks of the brain—is linked to youthful memory in older adults. Those ...
Sep 09, 2019
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List of regions in the human brain
Anatomical regions of the brain are listed vertically, following hierarchies that are standard in neuroanatomy. Functional, connective and developmental regions are listed horizontally in parentheses where appropriate.
Functional and connective regions defined as systems are categorized at cerebrospinal systems.
This text uses material from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA
