What does drinking beer really do? A new study has shown that drinking beer affects the way we see specific emotions and allows us to see happy faces faster. It also has surprising effects on sexual perception. These results*...
By measuring the fast electrical spikes of individual neurons in the touch region of the brain, Brown University neuroscientists have discovered a new type of cell that keeps time so regularly that it may serve as the brain's long-hypothesized...
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...
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Researchers from the Universities of Groningen (Netherlands) and Pennsylvania have discovered a piece in the puzzle of how sleep deprivation negatively affects memory.
For the first time, a study in mice, to be published in the journal eLife, shows...
The recently-discovered species Homo naledi may have had a pint-sized brain, but that brain packed a big punch. New research by Ralph Holloway and colleagues -- that include researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa --...
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Depression in pregnancy increases the risk of behavioural and emotional problems in children, says a new review published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
The authors of the review, which focused mainly on low and middle income countries, call for urgent...
Iowa State University researchers have identified a protein essential for building memories that appears to predict the progression of memory loss and brain atrophy in Alzheimer's patients.
Auriel Willette, an assistant professor of food science and human nutrition; and Ashley...
Older people who help and support others live longer, a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/Michael Wacker Follow
Older people who help and support others live longer. These are the findings of a study published in the journal Evolution and...
NYU researchers offer a new theory, based on a computational model, on how the brain separates relevant from irrelevant information in these and other circumstances.
Imagine yourself sitting in a noisy café trying to read. To focus on the book...
Image of the in vitro model showing three distinct regions of the brain connected by axons. Credit: Disease Biophysics Group/Harvard University
Model allows researchers to study how diseases like schizophrenia impact different regions of the brain simultaneously
Harvard University researchers have...
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...
