Using Harvard-developed technology, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have catalogued more than 20,000 brain cells in one region of the mouse hypothalamus. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, revealed some 50 distinct cell types, including a...
New research from Newcastle University, UK, in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, investigated the way the human brain folds and how this 'cortical folding' changes with age. Linking the change in brain folding to the...
Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human's long-term visual memory with how things move.Image Credit:Flickr/amy leonard
As Superman flies over the city, people on the ground famously suppose they see a bird, then a plane, and...
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...
Even if you haven't ridden your bike in years, you probably remember how to do so without giving it much thought. If you're a skilled piano player, odds are you can easily sit down and play a song you've...
What happens to the brain in the case of amputation of a hand? What happens with reattachment?
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When a person loses a hand to amputation, nerves that control sensation and movement are severed, causing dramatic...
n a test of cognitive control, researchers found that repeatedly pairing a specific face, such as this photo of Leonardo DiCaprio, with the wrong name primed participants to focus entirely on the face when identifying the person in the...
Current sleep staging practice consists of visual analysis of 30-second segments of raw EEG wave forms (top) and subjective categorization into sleep stages to create a hypnogram (middle), which is used for many clinical analyses. The multitaper spectrogram (bottom)...
The researchers used a sample of 700 trees to create one tree that summarized the relationships among the Pama-Nyungan languages.Credit: Image courtesy of Yale University
The naming of colors has long been a topic of interest in the study of...
By age 5 children have a sense of self-esteem comparable in strength to that of adults, according to a new study by University of Washington researchers.
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Because self-esteem tends to remain relatively stable across one's lifespan, the study...
Taking lithium was associated with reduced rates of self-harm and unintentional injury in patients with bipolar disorder compared with other commonly prescribed maintenance treatments, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.
Self-harm is a major cause of illness...
