FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·January 17, 2023·4 min readBroken Promises: Children as Young as 3 Can Detect Bad ExcusesWhen it comes to broken promises, children between the ages of 3 to 5 can detect whether the excuse is good or bad.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeurosciencePsychology·December 14, 2022·3 min readFour Genes Identified as Heightening Risk of Suicidal Thoughts and ActionsResearchers have identified four genes, ESR1, DCC, DRD2, and TRAF3, that are associated with an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 1, 2022·4 min readParents Talk More to Toddlers Who Talk BackRegardless of a child's gender, parents talk more to toddlers who already verbally communicate well.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·November 29, 2022·5 min readBrain Cells Use a ‘Telephone Trick’ to Report What They SeeSingle neurons conveying visual information about two separate objects in line of sight do so by alternating signals about one object or the other. However, when the two objects overlap, brain cells detect them as a single entity.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·November 28, 2022·6 min readMom’s Dietary Fat Rewires Male and Female Brains DifferentlyExcess fat from a mother's high-fat diet triggers immune cells to over-consume serotonin in the brains of developing males, leading to depression-like behaviors in the offspring.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·November 14, 2022·5 min readFeeling Lonely? What We Want From Our Relationships Can Change With AgeExpectations of what a person expects from an interpersonal relationship change significantly as we age. Researchers say that many people still feel lonely, even when they don't spend too much time alone.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 29, 2022·5 min readHow Long Older Adults Will Live Comes Down to 17 Often Surprising FactorsResearchers have designed a new model of life expectancy that's based less on disease diagnosis, and more on other factors including cholesterol levels and lifestyle.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·August 3, 2022·6 min readAir Pollution and Stress Alter Brain Development and Social BehaviorAir pollution along with housing insecurity and stress during pregnancy leads to an increased risk of autism-like social behaviors and differences in neural anatomy in male mice offspring. Researchers believe the changes could be due to the immune system.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·March 7, 2022·5 min readLead Exposure in Last Century Shrunk IQ Scores of Half of AmericansEarly-life exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas reduced the IQ of around 170 million Americans, a new study reports.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·March 7, 2022·4 min readSimulated Human Eye Movement Aims to Train Metaverse PlatformsEyeSyn, a newly developed "virtual eye" that simulates how humans look at the world accurately enough for the development of new augmented reality programs, can help create applications for the metaverse.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 14, 2022·4 min readMRI Scans Show Few Brain Differences in Children With ADHDA neuroimaging study found children aged 9 - 10 with ADHD have few differences in structural brain measurements compared to their peers without ADHD.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 29, 2021·5 min readKeeping the Aging Brain Connected With Words and MusicLearning a new language or playing a musical instrument has a positive impact on cognitive function in the aging brain, researchers report.Read More