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New Machine Learning Program Shows Promise For Early Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

Neuroscience NewsAugust 15, 2017

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that integrates Alzheimer's indicators from MRI measurements to predict patients with the neurodegenerative disease.... Read More...

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Why Expensive Wine Appears to Taste Better

Neuroscience NewsAugust 14, 2017

Researchers reveal how our brain's reward system tricks us into thinking a more expensive bottle of wine tastes better. ... Read More...

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What Happens When People Hear Voices Others Don’t?

Neuroscience NewsAugust 11, 2017

Computational modeling and neuroimaging could help differentiate people with psychosis from those who experience auditory hallucinations without the disorder.... Read More...

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If a Brain Can Be Caught Lying, Should We Admit That Evidence to Court?

Neuroscience NewsAugust 5, 2017

As technology is improving and becoming more accurate at deciphering whether a person is lying or telling the truth, researchers debate whether such technology should be used in legal cases.... Read More...

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Neural Link Between Generosity and Happiness Discovered

Neuroscience NewsAugust 4, 2017

A new study reveals a neurobiological reason behind why we feel happy when we are being generous. Researchers discovered the connectivity between the temporal parietal junction and ventral striatum, an area of the brain associated with happiness, was enhanced in people who committed to generosity.... Read More...

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‘Sherlock’ and the Case of Narrative Perception

Neuroscience NewsAugust 2, 2017

Researchers use the TV show 'Sherlock' to investigate how the brain segments experiences during perception and long-term memory formation.... Read More...

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Magic Helps Unlock How the Brain Works

Neuroscience NewsAugust 1, 2017

Researchers have developed a new version of the classic Mirror Box Illusion to help better understand how the brain processes multiple sensory inputs to perceive our bodies and environment.... Read More...

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Scientists Become Research Subjects in After-Hours Brain-Scanning Project

Neuroscience NewsJuly 27, 2017

Researchers join their own experiments as test subjects to evaluate different brain networks. Using neuroimaging to scan their brains, researchers created individual detailed maps of neural connections.... Read More...

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Substance Addiction Changes Mother’s Response to Infant

Neuroscience NewsJuly 27, 2017

Substance addiction modifies they way a mother's brain responds to her own child, a new study reports. Researchers found key reward regions of the brain appear to shut down in response to their own infant's smiles in mothers with addictions.... Read More...

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Talking to Yourself in the Third Person Can Help You Control Stressful Emotions

Neuroscience NewsJuly 26, 2017

Thinking or talking about oneself in the third person can lead people to consider themselves in similar ways to how they think about others, a new study reports. Researchers say talking about yourself in the third person may allow you to distance yourself from stressful experiences and help to regulate emotion. ... Read More...

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Psychopaths are Better at Learning to Lie

Neuroscience NewsJuly 25, 2017

A new study using university students reveals those with high psychopathic traits showed a significantly reduces response time when being prompted to lie following training than those low levels of the traits. Researchers say their findings provide evidence that those with higher psychopathic traits may be better at learning to lie.... Read More...

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EEG and fMRI May Detect Consciousness in Patients With Acute, Severe TBI

Neuroscience NewsJuly 22, 2017

Providing patients with acute TBI access to early fMRI and EEG testing will allow medical professionals greater ability to detect levels of consciousness. A new Brain study reports bedside exams may miss critical information about neurophysiological damage.... Read More...

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