In situ image of the recorded baboons.Credit: © Caralyn Kemp and Julie Gullstrand / Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology (CNRS/AMU
Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels. This is what has been demonstrated by an international team coordinated by researchers from the...
Credit: Tawakol et al, 2017, The Lancet
A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISSMS) investigators has linked, for the first time in humans, activity in a stress-sensitive structure within the...
In contrast to previous studies, profit-related pay and employee share-ownership had a mix of negative and no significant effects on attitudes.Image Credit: Wikimedia
Incentive-related pay schemes can stress rather than motivate employees, according to new research by the University of...
Neuroscientists at MIT have adapted their MRI scanner to make it easier to scan infants’ brains as the babies watch movies featuring different types of visual input. With the new technique, the team found that in some ways, the...
Insight into cellular mechanisms illuminates biological target for PTSD therapy
Experiments in mice by researchers at Johns Hopkins suggest that if the goal is to ease or extinguish fearful emotional memories like those associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol may...
Image credit: Flickr/Hans Splinter
Researchers at UdeM's audiology school find that musicians have faster reaction times than non-musicians – and that could have implications for the elderly.
Could learning to play a musical instrument help the elderly react faster and stay...
Bilingual people are great at saving brain power,a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/jurek_durczak
A research team established that years of bilingualism change how the brain carries out tasks that require concentrating.
New research findings show that bilingual people are great...
Researchers found that memory training provided only one-third the benefit to older adults with obesity than the benefit it provided to older adults without obesity.Image Credit: Flickr/Sarah
In the first study to compare the results of cognitive training by body...
This graphic depicts the numbers and function of glia and neurons in the aging human brain.Credit: Lilach Soreq
The difference between an old brain and a young brain isn't so much the number of neurons but the presence and function...
new study suggest that factors contributing to early birth might also impact the brain's development in the womb, leading to significant neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and cerebral palsy.Image Credit: Flickr/mcbethphoto
Even before they are born,...
Older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three-year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely, a new study says. Image Credit: Flickr/mealmakeovermoms
A new study shows that older people who...
