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·May 25, 2022·5 min read

Mechanism Responsible for Information Transfer Between Different Regions of the Brain Discovered

Increasing synchronization of neurons in the upstream brain region that transmits information leads to a significant improvement in the transmission of information and information processing in the downstream region.

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·April 28, 2022·3 min read

New Brain Learning Mechanism Calls for Revision of Long-Held Neuroscience Hypothesis

Experimental observations conclude learning is mainly performed by neural dendrite trees as opposed to modifying solely through the strength of the synapses, as previously believed.

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·March 5, 2022·4 min read

Choosing to Be With Others Is More Consequential to Well-Being Than Choosing to Be Alone

The element of choice in whether we choose to be alone or interact with others plays a key role in personal wellbeing.

This is a cartoon of a child looking at a butterfly. Her father is calling her over in the background, but her brain is full with the image of the butterfly

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·January 22, 2022·5 min read

In Visual Memory, Size Matters

In natural vision, visual memories of an image are affected by the size of the vision on the retina.

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·January 2, 2022·5 min read

Autism Can Be Identified as Early as the First Year of Life

Study reveals symptoms of autism can be detected within the first year of a child's life, and early detection can help with interventions that may significantly reduce the severity of lifelong developmental deviation.

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·August 7, 2021·4 min read

Nutritional Supplements Could Help Treat PTSD

Combining two natural products that modulate the epigenome, researchers believe they have identified a feasible approach to reversing symptoms of PTSD in animal models that could be effective in humans.

This is an image of the brain and an explanation of what happens when people collaborate on musical pieces

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·June 10, 2021·5 min read

What Happens in the Brain When People Make Music Together?

A new study reveals what goes on in the brain when a person embarks on a musical collaboration project.

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·February 1, 2021·4 min read

What Makes People Want More Self-Control?

Study reveals the motivating elements that drives a person's desire to improve self-control.

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·May 21, 2020·3 min read

Hearts that drum together beat together

Drumming in a group stimulates behavioral and physiological synchronization, which contributes to the formation of social bonds and the ability to cooperate.

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·February 13, 2020·4 min read

State of mind: The end of personality as we know it

A new framework sheds light on how the mind adapts to different situations. The study proposes a unifying principle for the cortical mechanisms where state of mind is determined.

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·April 23, 2019·3 min read

Seven seconds of Spiderman viewing yields a 20% phobia symptom reduction

Study reports people with insect phobias reported a 20% reduction in symptoms following seven-seconds of exposure to the superhero movies Spiderman and Antman.

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·January 22, 2019·3 min read

Parental PTSD Affects Health Behavior and Aging Among Offspring of Holocaust Survivors

A new study reports Holocaust survivors who suffer from PTSD and their adult children age less successfully and display more unhealthy behaviors than those with no PTSD or who did not experience the horrors of the Holocaust.