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UCLA’s research introduced mindfulness training early in the recovery process with encouraging results. Credit: Bär Baer/Flickr
Study shows training is particularly beneficial for addicts who have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety
Meditation and other mindfulness strategies may reduce the...
This image shows regions of the white matter skeleton in which connectivity in IED subjects was significantly lower than healthy controls.
Credit: Lee, et al, Neuropsychopharmacology
People with intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or impulsive aggression, have a weakened connection between regions...
When you're suddenly able to understand someone despite their thick accent, or finally make out the lyrics of a song, your brain appears to be re-tuning to recognize speech that was previously incomprehensible.
University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have now...
The location of the 'physics engine' in the brain is highlighted in color in this illustration.Credit: Jason Fischer/JHU
Whether or not they aced the subject in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting...
Participants rode stationary bikes while wearing a wireless heart rate monitor and an EEG cap.Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Santa Barbara
It's universally accepted that the benefits of exercise go well beyond fitness, from reducing the risk...
What might alien music sound like? Would it be structured hierarchically as our music is with verses and a chorus? Would we even be able to appreciate it? Vincent Cheung, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for...
Context plays a big role in our memories, both good and bad. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" on the car radio, for example, may remind you of your first love -- or your first speeding ticket. But a Dartmouth-...
Delayed match-to-sample task. Repeated-measures ANOVA results of the delayed match-to-sample task (colors indicate P values of significant voxels, cluster-based P ? .05; K ? 10) superimposed to a standard brain template. A, Probability map overlays show positive drug X...
A magnified image of a mouse cerebellar section shows multiple layers. New research shows this part of the brain may be a target for treating autism through brain stimulation.
Credit: UTSW
Scientists are examining the feasibility of treating autistic children with...
In a study of mice, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers describe a new circuit involved in fine-tuning the brain's decision either to hide or confront threats. The study, published in Nature, was partially funded by the NIH's Brain Research...
Green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a model system for molecular biology and environmental studies.
Credit: © Dartmouth College Electron Microscope Facility, Louisa Howard
The mercury found at very low concentrations in water is concentrated along the entire food chain, from algae via...
