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·October 26, 2022·5 min read

What’s in a Name? Actors Suppress Their Sense of Self When Playing New Character

When actors hear their own names during a performance, their response is suppressed by activity in the left anterior prefrontal cortex, a brain area associated with self-awareness.

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·October 26, 2022·4 min read

Neuroimaging Study Reveals Functional and Structural Brain Abnormalities in People With Post-treatment Lyme Disease

A neuroimaging study reveals distinctive changes in white matter and other brain tissue physiology in Lyme disease patients during the post-treatment phase. The study also found unusual activity in the frontal lobe, a brain area associated with memory recall and concentration in those who had been treated for Lyme.

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·October 26, 2022·6 min read

How Early Fears Play a Role in Future Anxiety and Depression

Behavioral inhibition at 12 to 24 months of age was associated with an increased risk of developing depression, more so than anxiety, during later life. This is especially true for inhibited children who showed blunted activity in the ventral striatum during adolescence.

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·October 25, 2022·9 min read

Where Do Fears Come From?

Exposure therapy for fears and phobias may only have a 50% success rate because fear memories outlast competing safety memories learned from therapy. Researchers investigate the genesis of fear memories and have developed a new mathematical model to help strengthen exposure therapies.

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·October 25, 2022·4 min read

Happily Ever After? A New Chapter for Traditional Fairy Tales

While some deem traditional fairy tales to be outdated or sexist, researchers say fairy stories play an important role in teaching young children about social justice, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking skills.

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·October 25, 2022·4 min read

Cats Distinguish Between Speech Directed at Them and Humans

Cats alter their behavior when their owner speaks in a cat-directed tone toward them, but not when their owner talks to another human or when a stranger addresses them in a cat-directed tone. Evidence suggests cats are able to, and do form strong bonds with their owners.

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·October 25, 2022·4 min read

Gene Involved in Neuronal Structure and Function May Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease

Overexpression of KIF11, a gene associated with the structure and function of neurons, prevents and protects against cognitive decline in both mouse models and humans with Alzheimer's disease pathologies. Boosting KIF11 expression could be beneficial in preventing cognitive decline, and boosting learning and memory in Alzheimer's patients.

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·October 25, 2022·5 min read

Highly Emotional People Drawn to Cats for Stress Relief

Those with strong and highly reactive emotions benefit from feline interventions when it comes to stress relief programs.

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·October 25, 2022·5 min read

Word and Face Recognition Can Be Adequately Supported With Half a Brain

Hemispherectomy patients who had a hemisphere of their brain removed during childhood can correctly recognize differences between pairs of words or faces 80% of the time, a new study reports. The findings reveal how the brain adapts when it is highly plastic.