Researchers explore the science behind memory and memory loss, including why forgetting things is a crucial part of memory formation.
The brain uses a specific region called the occipital place area (OPA) to navigate through spaces visually while walking, and not when crawling or using other modes of movement. This discovery sheds light on how children develop spatial awareness and interact with their surroundings as they learn to walk.
The brain creates specific and distinct spaces within the cortex for each general rule of working memory and controls these spaces with brain rhythms, researchers report.
Researchers identified 11 areas of DNA that were linked to depression in women and one in males. They also found depression was associated with metabolic disease in women, providing an important new aspect to consider when treating depressive symptoms.
Sleep quality is a more important factor when it comes to improved quality of life over sleep duration, a new study reports.
How a mother and father view each other as a co-parent has an impact on a child's well-being, researchers say. When parents consider their co-parenting relationship to be positive, children are better adjusted. Children were almost as well-adjusted when the parent's relationship was moderate or if the mother had a more negative view of the father's parenting. However, when a father viewed the co-parenting relationship as negative, child outcome suffered.
Dogs with anxiety have stronger neural connections between the amygdala and other areas of the anxiety network in the brain compared to less anxious dogs.
If neural assemblies between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex fail to sync together at the correct time, memories are lost.
New Test Quickly Identifies Patients Whose Postoperative Pain Can Be Effectively Treated by Hypnosis
A newly developed molecular diagnostic test is able to identify people who are most likely to benefit from hypnosis to help manage post-operative pain. This subset of highly hypnotizable people is also more likely to experience higher levels of post-operative pain.
Focused ultrasound treatments help to improve motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease and dyskinesia.
The sensory cortex is much more involved in threat processing and perception than previously believed.
When the reward is less than expected, people with OCD exhibit lower-than-normal learning rates. Conversely, those with gambling addictions exhibit boosted and blunted patterns of learning when the rewards are higher and lower than expected.
