Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found how even brief exposure to sudden sounds or mild trauma can form permanent, long-term brain connections, or memories, in a specific region of the brain. Moreover, the research ...
Aug 24, 2015
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During sleep and under anesthesia, we rarely respond to such external stimuli as sounds even though our brains remain highly active.
May 27, 2020
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For the past 100 years, scientists have understood that different areas of the brain serve unique purposes. Only recently have they realized that the organization isn't static. Rather than having strictly defined routes of ...
Sep 30, 2016
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Regions of the brain function differently among people with post-traumatic stress disorder, causing them to generalize non-threatening events as if they were the original trauma, according to new research from Duke Medicine ...
Dec 15, 2015
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Older adults appear more easily distracted by irrelevant information than younger people when they experience stress or powerful emotions— and a specific network in the brain recently identified as the epicenter for Alzheimer's ...
May 7, 2018
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A tiny part of the brain plays a big role in what we successfully remember during stressful or emotional situations, according to a new USC study.
Feb 14, 2018
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A UCLA-led study in mice shows that removing chemical messengers in the brain that are involved in both wakefulness and addiction may make withdrawal from opioids easier and help prevent relapse.
Jan 12, 2022
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Using a novel 3D imaging technology, researchers at Karolinska Institutet, among others, have been able to comprehensively characterize a part of the brain that shows perhaps the earliest accumulation of tau protein, an important ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry measured the pupillary reaction of participants while they were solving a task. In healthy participants, the pupils dilated during the task in anticipation of a reward, ...
Jan 12, 2024
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Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have successfully mapped specific regions in the brain that are activated in association with changes in blood sugar—also known as glucose—providing fundamental location ...
May 24, 2023
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