FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·January 12, 2023·4 min readCommon Brain Network for Psychiatric Illness DiscoveredInvestigating four pre-existing, publically available psychological and neurological data sets, researchers identify a network of brain areas that underlie psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·March 16, 2022·4 min readNeurons That Drive Competition and Social Behavior Within Groups IdentifiedNeurons in the anterior cingulate store social rank information to inform upcoming decisions. The findings could shed new light on social deficits associated with ASD and schizophrenia.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 28, 2020·3 min readHow the Brain Balances Emotion and ReasonArea 32, a region of the anterior cingulate, balances activity from cognitive and emotional areas of the primate brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 20, 2020·5 min readWhen Learning on Your Own Is Not EnoughNeuroimaging study reveals social learning is represented in the anterior cingulate cortex, while direct learning is represented in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The two areas both interact with the striatum, which helps compute both reward prediction error and social prediction error.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·June 2, 2020·4 min readYour brain needs to be ready to remember?When hippocampal firing rates are high before exposure to a learning task, people are better able to successfully encode memory. Findings suggest the hippocampus may have a "ready to encode" mode that facilitates memory recall.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·January 13, 2020·4 min readConnecting the dots in the migraine brainNeuroimaging study reveals altered structural brain connectivity in patients with chronic and episodic migraines.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 25, 2019·5 min readBrain anatomy changes with maturation to adolescenceWhite matter tracts show increasing maturation with age from the back to the front of the brain. The maturations begin as a child reaches 9-12 years of age. The maturity correlates with a critical and formative period of development.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·April 8, 2019·3 min readHow education may stave off cognitive declineNeuroimaging reveals those who have spent more years studying have increased cortical thickness in the medial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal areas of the brain. Researchers also identified enhanced gene expression profiles in these brain regions that promote information processing and provide protection against some age-related neurodegenerative diseases.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·November 13, 2018·5 min readBrain Changes Found in Self-Injuring Teen Girls Similar to BPDA new neuroimaging study reveals the brains of teenage girls who self harm show similar features to adults with borderline personality disorder.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience Videos·October 6, 2018·6 min readWhy You Can’t Decide What to Order For LunchA new study reveals why, when the brain is faced with an overwhelming number of similar options, it struggles to make a decision.Read More
AutismFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·June 18, 2018·6 min readHow the Brain’s “Reward Circuit” Plays a Key Role in Symptoms of Autism Spectrum DisorderA new meta-analysis of neuroimaging data reveals people with ASD process social and nonsocial rewards differently than those without an autism diagnosis.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 23, 2018·4 min readYour Brain Responses to Music Reveal if You Are a Musician or NotMachine learning can predict, with significant accuracy, whether a person is a musician or not, based on fMRI data collected while subjects listened to music.Read More
