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·June 8, 2015·5 min read

Study Links Surgical Anesthesia to Lower IQ and Decreased Gray Matter Density in Young Children

A new study reports children who received general anesthetic prior to the age of four had lower IQ, decreased gray matter density in posterior areas of the brain and diminished language comprehension.

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·June 5, 2015·5 min read

Strokes Age Brain Function by Almost Eight Years

Researchers report that having a stroke ages a person's brain function by almost eight years. The effect is similar across races.

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·May 26, 2015·4 min read

Interpreting the Brain Activity of Preterm Babies

Researchers report the brainstorm of neural activity in premature babies is governed by the same rules as earthquakes.

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·March 5, 2015·2 min read

Human Brains Age Less than Previously Thought

According to a researchers, changes associated with brain aging could be due to vascular changes and not neural activity.

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·February 25, 2015·2 min read

Hidden Gene Gives Hope for Improving Brain Function

The gene Gomafu might be key to understanding how our brain rapidly responds to stressful experiences, researchers report.

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·December 12, 2014·4 min read

Neuroscientists Reveal Fundamental Discovery About Cortical Neurons

A new paper hypothesizes that a particular type of interneuron may influence responses in a context dependent manner.

The image shows MRI brain scans of a person with autism and a control test subject. The scan reveals the neural activity when the person is hugged.

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·December 2, 2014·5 min read

Brain Representations of Social Thoughts Accurately Predict Autism Diagnosis

Neuroimaging techniques allow researchers to use neural representations of social thought to predict autism diagnosis with 97 percent accuracy, a new study reports.