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Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy. But new research shows that it improves your brain's health too -- and that education also has a positive effect.
In a study recently...
Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies, a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/Jan Tik
Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies. This is one of the findings from a recent study coming from...
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...
In the marked brain region the thickness of the cerebral cortex decreased after psychotherapy.Credit: UZH
Anxiety in social situations is not a rare problem: Around one in ten people are affected by social anxiety disorder during their lifetime. Social anxiety...
Image showing brain areas more active in controls than in schizophrenia patients during a working memory task during a fMRI study.Image Credit: Wikimedia
Virtual reality could hold the key to unlocking an affordable, reliable and effective device to provide...
Using Harvard-developed technology, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have catalogued more than 20,000 brain cells in one region of the mouse hypothalamus. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, revealed some 50 distinct cell types, including a...
This picture shows 3-D reconstructions of electron microscope images of tree branch-like dendrites. At the end of the branches are cup-like structures called the spines, and in the tips of the spines are synapses. By studying thousands of images...
Chemical recalibration of brain cells during sleep is crucial for learning, and sleeping pills may sabotage it. Image credit: Flickr/philip pelgrom
Studying mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins have fortified evidence that a key purpose of sleep is to recalibrate the...
Soccer players who head the ball a lot are three times more likely to have concussion symptoms than players who don't head the ball often, according to a new study published in the February 1, 2017, online issue of...
Blue shows areas of gray matter volume decrease, likely reflecting shifting of cerebrospinal fluid. Orange shows regions of gray matter volume increase, in the regions that control movement of the legs. This likely reflects brain plasticity associated with “learning...
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...
