While measuring brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers found that men and women had opposite responses in the right front of the insular cortex, a part of the brain integral to the experience...
MRI coronal view of the amygdala.Credit: Amber Rieder, Jenna Traynor, Geoffrey B Hall
How different are men and women's brains?
The latest evidence to address this controversy comes from a study at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, where a...
Early in learning (left) the shock is unexpected and sends a powerful signal to the amygdala (lateral portion, LA) to trigger a memory of the tone-shock association. After learning (right) the tone fully predicts the shock and engages a...
The number of people living well into their 90s is projected to quadruple by 2050. By mid-century, nearly 9 million people will be 90-years-old or older. In a first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,...
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People who have a greater risk of developing schizophrenia are more likely to try cannabis, according to new research, which also found a causal link between trying the drug and an increased risk of the condition.
The study...
Our daily lives include hundreds of routine habits. Brushing our teeth, driving to work, or putting away the dishes are just a few of the tasks that our brains have automated to the point that we hardly need to...
We make snap judgments of others based not only on their facial appearance, but also on our pre-existing beliefs about how others' personalities work, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers.
Its work, reported in the journal...
Two new studies uncover key players responsible for learning and memory formation. One study revealed for the first time an autocrine signaling system and the second study presented a unique form of biochemical computation in dendrites involving the controlled...
Comparison of grey matter (brown) and white matter (yellow) in sex-matched subjects A (56 years, BMI 19.5) and B (50 years, BMI 43.4) Credit: Lisa Ronan
From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to...
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, has made a breakthrough in the field of noninvasive robotic device control. Using a noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI), researchers have developed the first-ever successful...
Telling someone else about what you've learned is a really effective way for students to study instead of just re-reading the textbook or class notes. Image Credit:Flickr/masaisrael
Students who get information, then re-tell it to someone immediately, recall it better...
