After looking at images of slot machines and roulette, problem gamblers experience increased activity in the same part of the brain that lights up when drug addicts have cravings, according to a new UBC psychology study.
Jan 3, 2017
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If you're thinking about taking up running as your New Year's resolution and still need some convincing, consider this: MRI scans reveal that endurance runners' brains have greater functional connectivity than the brains ...
Dec 14, 2016
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Research in Singapore finds that babies have lower abdominal fat when their mothers' diet is relatively protein-rich and low in carbohydrate and fat during pregnancy. A*STAR researcher Mary Chong says this revelation may ...
Nov 2, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—A small team of researchers with Johns Hopkins University has found that vision is not necessarily a requirement for being able to perform internal math or counting tasks. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at Case Western Reserve University has outperformed physicians on a more serious matter.
Sep 15, 2016
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An internationally significant study of healthy twins, 65 years of age or older, has unlocked important clues about how genes influence the development of key grey matter structures, paving the way for a genetic blueprint ...
Sep 6, 2016
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UCLA doctors have found what may be an earlier and easier way to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a disorder that is thought to affect some former football players and others with a history of repetitive ...
Aug 23, 2016
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MedUni Vienna researchers from the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy have conducted a meta analysis of more than 2,300 patients from 14 international studies and have been able to show, for the very ...
Aug 18, 2016
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Anyone who has ever visited a doctor's office is familiar with the use of blood tests for the diagnosis of various diseases. Because blood comes in contact with all organs of the body, it carries markers of the health of ...
Jul 28, 2016
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A new study, focused on the Dutch famine of 1944-45, has highlighted how prenatal famine exposure has sex-specific effects on brain size.
Jul 13, 2016
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