Do the seasons affect how we think?
When do you think more clearly: winter or summer? What time of year is your short-term memory at its best?
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When do you think more clearly: winter or summer? What time of year is your short-term memory at its best?
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'Practice makes perfect' may be a cliché but a new brain study out of York U affirms this age old theory.
Jan 29, 2016
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Many negative consequences are linked to growing up poor, and researchers at Washington University St. Louis have identified one more: altered brain connectivity.
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(MedicalXpress)—A combined team of researchers from Stanford and Cornell University's has found what they believe to be the brain circuits that are involved in the development of anhedonia—where a person, or rat, is incapable ...
Researchers can now reconstruct what we see in our minds when we navigate—and explain how we get directions wrong.
Dec 22, 2015
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Metastasis - or the spread of cancer from one part of the body to other parts - accounts for more than 90 percent of cancer-related deaths. Although the cells that seed metastasis and the sites that they tend to travel to ...
Dec 16, 2015
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Concentrating attention on a visual task can render you momentarily 'deaf' to sounds at normal levels, reports a new UCL study funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder affecting about one in 100 people, is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat, in large part because it manifests differently in different people. A new study published today in ...
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Norway and the U.S. has found that genetics appears to play a role in how thick the cerebral cortex is for people as they grow older. In their paper published ...
Babies born prematurely face an increased risk of neurological and psychiatric problems that may be due to weakened connections in brain networks linked to attention, communication and the processing of emotions, new research ...
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