Repeat ketamine infusions decreased -- and for some, eliminated -- suicidal thoughts in outpatients with treatment-resistant depression. Credit: © ryan melaugh / Flickr
Repeat intravenous treatment with low doses of the anesthetic drug ketamine quickly reduced suicidal thoughts in a...
FOXP2, a gene implicated in affecting speech and language, is held up as a textbook example of positive selection on a human-specific trait. But in a paper published August 2 in the journal Cell, researchers challenge this finding. Their...
Illinois professor Aron Barbey led a study that examined how cognitive cross-training affects skill learning.
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Just as athletes cross-train to improve physical skills, those wanting to enhance cognitive skills can benefit from multiple ways of exercising...
The Mediterranean diet can improve your mind, as well your heart, shows a new study.Credit: © mealmakeovermoms / Flickr
Eating a Mediterranean diet can slow down cognitive decline.
The Mediterranean diet can improve your mind, as well your heart, shows...
A team of neuroscientists has found that people are biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios — for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time intervals.Image: MIT News
Study finds the brain is...
Creation of organoids from stem cells allows scientists to study discrete areas of brain as it develops.
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Scientists can now explore in a laboratory dish how the human brain develops by creating organoids -- distinct, three-dimensional...
Scientists in Japan have designed new molecules that modify the circadian rhythm, opening the way to the possibility of managing jet lag and improving treatments for sleep disorders.
The negative impacts of jet lag and shift work could be significantly...
Of all the challenges that come with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the social difficulties are among the most devastating. Currently, there is no treatment for this primary symptom of ASD. New research at the University at...
NIRS/EEG brain computer interface system shown on a model. Credit: Wyss Center, wysscenter.ch
A brain-computer interface that can decipher the thoughts of people who are unable to communicate could revolutionize the lives of those living with completely locked-in syndrome, according...
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...
The visual system is probably the best understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled a detailed account of how light waves entering your eyes allow you to recognize your grandmother's face, to track...
