Psychology & Psychiatry
How a high-fat diet can make you anxious
When we're stressed out, many of us turn to junk food for solace. But new CU Boulder research suggests this strategy may backfire.
Jun 13, 2024
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News tagged with human brains
Neuroscience
Technologies enable 3D imaging of whole human brain hemispheres at subcellular resolution
Observing anything and everything within the human brain, no matter how large or small while it is fully intact, has been an out-of-reach dream of neuroscience for decades, but in a new study in Science, an MIT-based team ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Happy women and angry men: Who are you more likely to see in strange objects?
Seeing faces in inanimate objects is a common occurrence but research from QUT has found our brains assign them the same biases as we would human faces.
Jun 13, 2024
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Genetics
Study suggests promising gene therapy for FOXG1 syndrome
A viral gene therapy developed by University at Buffalo researchers has reversed some brain abnormalities in infant mice with FOXG1 syndrome, a significant step toward one day treating children with this severe neurodevelopmental ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Neuroscience
Ultra-high-resolution PET provides never-before-seen images of the brain
A new ultra-high-performance brain PET system allows for the direct measurement of brain nuclei as never before seen or quantified. With its ultra-high sensitivity and resolution, the NeuroEXPLORER provides exceptional brain ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Neuroscience
Baby baboon brain anatomy predicts which hand they will use to communicate
By studying the brain anatomy of newborn baby baboons, a research group including several CNRS scientists was able to predict what hand they would use to communicate after they had been weaned.
Jun 7, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why do we love to see unlikely animal friendships? A psychology expert explains
The internet is awash with stories and videos of unlikely animal friendships, often with many millions of views. This content typically shows animals from different species showing affection to one another, signifying a bond ...
Jun 6, 2024
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Neuroscience
People feel more connected to 'tweezer-like' bionic hands in virtual reality, study shows
Some say the next step in human evolution will be the integration of technology with flesh. Now, researchers have used virtual reality to test whether humans can feel embodiment—the sense that something is part of one's ...
Jun 6, 2024
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Neuroscience
Babies use 'helpless' infant period to learn powerful foundation models, just as ChatGPT does
Babies' brains are not as immature as previously thought, rather they are using the period of postnatal "helplessness" to learn powerful foundation models similar to those underpinning generative AI, according to a new study.
Jun 5, 2024
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Neuroscience
Using network models to investigate the relationship between skull and brain
Emiliano Bruner and Tim Schuurman, of the Paleoneurobiology of Hominins Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have just published a paper in the Journal of Anatomy in which they ...
Jun 3, 2024
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