Sep. 8, 2016 Researchers report that they were able to train unknowing volunteers to develop a mild but significant preference or dislike for faces that they had previously regarded ...
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Sep. 8, 2016 Scientists have succeeded in generating induced pluripotent stem cells from a rare disorder called Nijmegen breakage syndrome and to push these cells to become early neurons, revealing the mechanisms ...
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Sep. 7, 2016 A team of researchers has built a mathematical model that describes the molecular events associated with the beginning stage of learning and memory formation in the human brain. The research paves ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 The first validated set of pathological criteria for assessing the likelihood that cognitive impairment was caused by vascular disease has been outlined by new ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 Researchers have found a strong genetic contribution to almost all cortical and subcortical brain structures, and have identified three clusters of genetically related structures. The research paves ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 Overexpression of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), a stress-related gene, increases anxious temperament in monkeys, new research indicates. The findings provide a direct link in primates between ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 Clinical anxiety affects up to 30 percent of Americans who are in great need of better treatments with fewer side effects. A study finds that certain neurons in the hypothalamus play a central, ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 A brain MRI could help improve the diagnosis of people with a common type of cognitive disorder, according to a new study. Vascular cognitive disorder is caused by disease of the vessels supplying ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 A team of scientists shows how mutations in the gene GPT2 lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative brain disease. The study highlights both new medical and scientific opportunities, ...
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Sep. 5, 2016 A brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle has now been identified by researchers. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an archipelago of ...
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Sep. 5, 2016 People with the most common type of lung cancer whose disease has spread to the brain could be spared potentially harmful whole brain radiotherapy, according to new research. The phase 3 randomized ...
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Sep. 2, 2016 A correlation has been found between an operator’s working memory and ability to sustain attention and a phenomenon known as cognitive lock-up, when an individual focuses longer on an initial ...
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Sep. 2, 2016 New research examines whether or not, and to what extent, a combination of spiritual meditation and migraine medication affects analgesic medication ...
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Sep. 2, 2016 Scientists say the more foreign languages we learn, the more effectively our brain reacts and processes the data accumulated in the course of ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 Smoking the equivalent of a single 'spliff' of cannabis makes people less willing to work for money while 'high,' finds a new study. The research is the first to reliably ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 Researchers have analyzed current gene-disease findings to understand why people with neurodevelopmental and mental illness often have physical ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 Researchers have built and tested a new mathematical model that successfully reproduces complex brain activity during deep sleep, according to a new ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 Using sign language with intensive speech therapy may be an effective treatment for children with a rare speech disorder called apraxia of speech, according ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 New study in mice proposes the first gene that could help prevent tinnitus, that ringing in the ears inside one's head when no external sound is present. This discovery is a first step to ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 The regulation and function of sleep is one of the biggest black boxes of today's brain science. A new paper finds that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is suppressed by adenosine acting on a ...
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