Psychology & Psychiatry
Does porn affect the brain? Scientists urge more study
Researchers found less gray matter in the brains of men who watched large amounts of sexually explicit material, according to a new study.
May 29, 2014
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Neuroscience
Forever young: Meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in the brain
Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years longer. That's the good news.
Feb 5, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Depression affects the brains of males and females differently
When researchers in the UK exposed depressed adolescents to happy or sad words and imaged their brains, they found that depression has different effects on the brain activity of male and female patients in certain brain regions. ...
Jul 11, 2017
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Neuroscience
In people who intentionally let their minds wander, two main brain cell networks broadly overlap
Our thoughts are not always tethered to events in the moment. Although mind wandering is often considered a lapse in attention, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and ...
Apr 13, 2017
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Neuroscience
Need to remember something? Exercise four hours later
A new study suggests an intriguing strategy to boost memory for what you've just learned: hit the gym four hours later. The findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on June 16 show that physical exercise ...
Jun 16, 2016
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Neuroscience
Mathematical beauty activates same brain region as great art or music
People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological ...
Feb 12, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
CBD reduces impairment caused by cannabis
The more cannabidiol (CBD) in a strain of cannabis, the lower the impairment to brain function, finds a new UCL-led brain imaging study.
Apr 24, 2019
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Neuroscience
More evidence that male and female brains are wired differently
While measuring brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers found that men and women had opposite responses in the right front of the insular cortex, a part of the brain integral ...
Jul 13, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
15 percent of babies exposed to Zika before birth had severe abnormalities in first 18 months
Researchers evaluated motor skills and cognitive development, visual and hearing function, and brain images of children who had been exposed to the Zika virus during their mothers' pregnancies. By the age of 12 to 18 months, ...
Dec 12, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Case study shows patient on ketogenic diet living fully with IDH1-mutant glioblastoma
A British man who rejected the standard of care to treat his brain cancer has lived with the typically fatal glioblastoma tumor growing very slowly after adopting a ketogenic diet, providing a case study that researchers ...
Jun 10, 2021
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