AutismFeaturedNeuroscience·January 2, 2022·5 min readAutism Can Be Identified as Early as the First Year of LifeStudy 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·August 7, 2021·4 min readNutritional Supplements Could Help Treat PTSDCombining 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·June 10, 2021·5 min readWhat 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.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 1, 2021·4 min readWhat Makes People Want More Self-Control?Study reveals the motivating elements that drives a person's desire to improve self-control.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·May 21, 2020·3 min readHearts that drum together beat togetherDrumming in a group stimulates behavioral and physiological synchronization, which contributes to the formation of social bonds and the ability to cooperate.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 13, 2020·4 min readState of mind: The end of personality as we know itA 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.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 23, 2019·3 min readSeven seconds of Spiderman viewing yields a 20% phobia symptom reductionStudy reports people with insect phobias reported a 20% reduction in symptoms following seven-seconds of exposure to the superhero movies Spiderman and Antman.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·January 22, 2019·3 min readParental PTSD Affects Health Behavior and Aging Among Offspring of Holocaust SurvivorsA 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosVisual Neuroscience·January 21, 2019·3 min readNeurons in the Visual Cortex that Respond to Faces IdentifiedResearchers have identified neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different faces.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 30, 2018·4 min readGreat Minds May Think Alike, But All Minds Look AlikeResearchers report dendritic learning leads to a universal phenomenon that all brains are composed of the same wide spectrum of links.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 22, 2018·4 min readLess May Be More in Brain Stimulation TherapyWhen it comes to using rTMS to treat neurological and psychiatric conditions, less might be more, researchers say. The study reports fewer stimulations are required to prevent neurons from ceasing to respond.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 23, 2018·4 min readThe Brain Learns Completely Differently than We’ve Assumed Since the 20th CenturyA new study challenges long held beliefs about how learning occurs. Researchers suggest learning occurs in dendrites that are in closer proximity to neurons, as opposed to occurring solely in synapses.Read More