Neuroscience
Exploring the science of inspiration
Have you ever struggled with a problem that appeared to have no solution, and after turning your attention elsewhere, suddenly received a spark of inspiration?
Dec 7, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Recognizing the uniqueness of individuals with schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is an extremely variable psychiatric disorder that is diagnosed based on the presence of specific symptoms. Thomas Wolfers and André Marquand of Radboud university medical center investigated how much the brains ...
Oct 10, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Early warning sign of psychosis detected
Brains of people at risk of psychosis exhibit a pattern that can help predict whether they will go on to develop full-fledged schizophrenia, a new Yale-led study shows. The findings could help doctors begin early intervention ...
Sep 21, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
For the first time, a neural link between altruism and empathy toward strangers
Giving up a kidney to a stranger requires a certain sense of selflessness, what's come to be known in social science as extraordinary altruism. University of Pennsylvania psychologist Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz wanted to understand ...
Sep 11, 2018
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Larger sample sizes needed to increase reproducibility in neuroscience studies
Small sample sizes in studies using functional MRI to investigate brain connectivity and function are common in neuroscience, despite years of warnings that such studies likely lack sufficient statistical power. A new analysis ...
Jun 7, 2018
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Faster computations to visualize the finer details of brain activity in functional brain imaging
A computationally efficient data processing scheme will make it possible to see correlations in brain activity between different parts of the brain at unprecedented resolution. The statistics-based computation scheme, developed ...
Mar 21, 2018
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Neuroscience
Why the world looks stable while we move
Head movements change the environmental image received by the eyes. People still perceive the world as stable, because the brain corrects for any changes in visual information caused by head movements. For the first time, ...
Mar 12, 2018
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Brain imaging helps redefine intelligence
High-tech scans of the resting human brain can provide a new way to define and interpret the brain's actual mental capacity, new research suggests.
Feb 13, 2018
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Novel fMRI applications in childhood epilepsy increase understanding of seizure impacts
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has allowed researchers to map the memory functions that are often impaired within the brains of children with epilepsy. Additionally, a separate study of a novel application of ...
Dec 14, 2017
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Neuroscience
Brain scans may reveal most effective anti-drug messages
What if you could look into the brains of potential drug abusers and see what messages would be most likely to persuade them to "just say no?"
Dec 7, 2017
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