Neuroscience
Practice makes perfect, brain study confirms
'Practice makes perfect' may be a cliché but a new brain study out of York U affirms this age old theory.
Jan 29, 2016
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Brain study suggests consciousness a matter of optimal degree of connectedness in neural network
(Medical Xpress)—A team of European researchers has found evidence that suggests that human consciousness is a state where the neural network that makes up the brain operates at an optimal degree of connectedness. In their ...
Neuroscience
How reliable is resting state fMRI?
Arguably, no advance has revolutionized neuroscience as much as the invention of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Since its appearance in the early 1990's, its popularity has surged; a PubMed search returns nearly ...
Jan 18, 2016
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Researchers identify the brain circuits involved in anhedonia in rats
(MedicalXpress)—A combined team of researchers from Stanford and Cornell University's has found what they believe to be the brain circuits that are involved in the development of anhedonia—where a person, or rat, is incapable ...
Neuroscience
Mazes and brains: When preconception trumps logic
Researchers can now reconstruct what we see in our minds when we navigate—and explain how we get directions wrong.
Dec 22, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
MRI scans could predict patients at risk of major depressive disorder
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) could be used to predict which patients with recovered major depressive disorder are most likely to have more depressive episodes, according to a study published today in JAMA ...
Oct 8, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers use brain scans to predict response to antipsychotic medications
Investigators at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have discovered that brain scans can be used to predict patients' response to antipsychotic drug treatment. The findings are published online in the latest issue ...
Aug 28, 2015
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Study finds where our brain stores the time and place of memories
For the first time, scientists have seen evidence of where the brain records the time and place of real-life memories.
Aug 17, 2015
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Walking in nature found to reduce rumination
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working at Stanford University has found that people walking in a "natural" environment tend to engage in less rumination. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Neuroscience
Researchers identify gene for 'emotionally enhanced vividness'
As research subjects viewed emotion-laden pictures while an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imagining) machine scanned their brains for activity, researchers in a Cornell-University of British Columbia-University of Toronto ...
Jun 16, 2015
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