Neuroscientists from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Rochester have identified a specific brain signal associated with the conversion of speech into understanding. The signal is present when the listener has understood what they have heard, but it...
Eating both bland (left panel) and delicious (right panel) meals triggered significant opioid release in the brain.
Credit: Turku PET Centre
Finnish researchers have revealed how eating stimulates brain's endogenous opioid system to signal pleasure and satiety.
The recent results obtained by...
It's not rare that a baby experiences a stroke around the time it is born. Birth is hard on the brain, as is the change in blood circulation from the mother to the neonate. At least 1 in 4,000...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can alter our language processing, allowing for faster comprehension of meaningful word combinations, according to new research.
How the human brain processes the words we hear and constructs complex concepts is still somewhat of a...
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an archipelago of interconnected brain clusters crucial to promoting behavior...
High-tech scans of the resting human brain can provide a new way to define and interpret the brain's actual mental capacity, new research suggests.
In a report published in the journal PLOS ONE online Feb. 12, NYU School of Medicine researchers used...
The same genes that make us prone to depression could also make us prone to positivity, two psychology researchers have suggested.
Professors Elaine Fox, from Oxford University, and Chris Beevers from the University of Texas at Austin reviewed a number...
The experimental setup. (A) Outside view of the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) device during experimentation. (B) Third-person perspective on the forest glade and the two bridge piers with the plank. (C) First-person perspective in the height context. (D)...
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A new study by psychologists from the University of Liverpool and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) reveals that collaborating in a group to remember information is harmful.
The research, conducted by Dr Craig...
Researchers in China have analyzed the network heterogeneity of the suprachiasmatic nucleus to ultimately reverse age-related decline in circadian rhythm.
If you've ever felt groggy the morning after traversing time zones, you can thank the temporary mismatch between your body's...
Karyotype for trisomy Down syndrome. Notice the three copies of chromosome 21. Courtesy: National Human Genome Research Institute
Compared with the early 1990s, babies born with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) have a lower risk of developing serous heart problems, according...
