A new and relatively simple technique for mapping the wiring of the brain has shown a correlation between how well connected an individual's brain regions are and their intelligence, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.
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A contact lens on the bathroom floor, an escaped hamster in the backyard, a car key in a bed of gravel: How are we able to focus so sharply to find that proverbial needle in a haystack? Scientists at the University of California, ...
Apr 21, 2013
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Our minds often get trapped in repetitive thoughts, such as past mistakes, regrets, insecurities or unresolved conflicts. This pattern of persistent negative thinking, called rumination, can have detrimental effects on mental ...
Jun 29, 2023
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The more vividly a person imagines something, the more likely it is that they believe it's real, finds a new study by University College London researchers.
Apr 21, 2023
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Cognitive function at middle age is a strong predictor of whether a person may develop dementia later in life. Now, a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher has found that increasing ...
Apr 27, 2022
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The study, led by researchers from UNSW Sydney and published in eLife, found that the pupils of people with aphantasia did not respond when asked to imagine dark and light objects, while those without aphantasia did.
Apr 20, 2022
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An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan—from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult—that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink ...
Apr 6, 2022
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People exposed to more green space during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic reported significantly less depression and anxiety, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research published March 2 in the journal ...
Mar 2, 2022
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Never has there been a time when we were so obsessed with appearance than our current 'selfie' age. Many argue that the obsession with selfies and manipulation of images may turn some of us into narcissists, while others ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Transcranial focused ultrasound can be used to treat degenerative movement disorders, intractable pain, and mental disorders by delivering ultrasound energy to a specific area of the brain without opening the skull. This ...
Nov 10, 2021
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