This study provides evidence that losing one of your five senses enhances the others.
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People who use British Sign Language (BSL) have better reaction times in their peripheral vision, a new study from the University of Sheffield has...
Rock your baby in sync with music and you may wonder how the experience affects her and her developing brain.
A new study by scientists at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) shows that a...
The confidence in our decision-making serves to both gauge errors and to revise our approach, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study offers insights into the hierarchical nature of how we make choices over extended periods of time,...
Both ventral and dorsal roots have been detached, which is the common scenario clinically, the ventral root is implanted directly into the cord as is dorsal root, but after the ganglion has been cut out. In the final drawing...
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 new study, published July 20 in JAMA Pediatrics, provides even more compelling evidence that growing up in poverty has detrimental effects on the brain.
An alarming 22 percent of U.S. children live in poverty, which can have long-lasting negative...
Rendering of a nerve cell.
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In a new systematic review in JAMA Neurology, Michigan Medicine researchers found reason to further explore the surprising effects of zolpidem that have been observed outside the scope of its primary...
A new Carnegie Mellon University neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving challenging math problems.
Published in Psychological Science, researchers combined two analytical strategies to use functional MRI (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain...
Liam Satchell with a participant.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth
The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new exploratory study from the University of Portsmouth has found.
The researchers from the Department of Psychology...
McGill scientists show brain's own opioids involved in musical pleasure. Image Credit: Flickr/amy leonard
The same brain-chemical system that mediates feelings of pleasure from sex, recreational drugs, and food is also critical to experiencing musical pleasure, according to a study...
This figure shows the relationship between task performance and level of cognitive control.Credit: Amer, Campbell, Hasher/Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2016
As you age, you may find it more difficult to focus on certain tasks. But while distractions can be frustrating,...
