A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying and teaching students with math learning disabilities.Credit: Flickr/timypenburg
A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying...
While the broad architecture and organization of the human brain is universal, new research shows how the differences between how people reimagine common scenarios can be observed in brain activity and quantified. These unique neurological signatures could ultimately be...
This image shows Giant Nudibranch, Dendronotus iris.
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Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about...
Credit: Tawakol et al, 2017, The Lancet
A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISSMS) investigators has linked, for the first time in humans, activity in a stress-sensitive structure within the...
New findings from large-scale data clarify how hedonic considerations shape human behavior. They may also explain how humans overcome the allure of short-term gains in happiness to maximize their long-term welfare.Credit: © linosalento / Flickr
Most theories of motivation have...
Women suffer from a higher incidence of chronic and inflammatory pain conditions such as fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, says a new study.Image credit: Flickr/Britt-knee
A female brain's resident immune cells are more active in regions involved in pain processing relative to...
Number processing.Credit: Image courtesy of Johns Hopkins University
Human babies and even animals have a basic number sense that many believe evolves from seeing the world and trying to quantify all the sights. But vision has nothing to do with...
Spending too much time in dimly lit rooms and offices may actually change the brain's structure and hurt one's ability to remember and learn, indicates groundbreaking research by Michigan State University neuroscientists.
The researchers studied the brains of Nile grass...
New findings will better help map out the brain's speech regions.
Credit: Adeen Flinker
For 150 years, the iconic Broca's area of the brain has been recognized as the command center for human speech, including vocalization. Now, scientists at UC Berkeley...
A newly identified protein can be manipulated to make opioid painkillers effective at lower doses while also muting the reward mechanism that leads to addiction, Mount Sinai researchers have found.
The protein, RGSz1 (Regulator of G protein signaling z1), which is...
An ancient area of the midbrain of all vertebrates called the corpora quadrigemina can independently contol and reorientate the eyes, researchers from Karolinska Institutet report in a study published in the journal eLIFE.
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