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·March 15, 2018·5 min read

ADHD Drug Increases Glutamate and Positive Emotion in Healthy People

A new study reveals a psychostimulant prescribed for ADHD increases glutamate in the brains of healthy people, resulting in more positive emotions.

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·January 21, 2020·6 min read

Autism study finds later diagnoses for girls, and high rates of co-occurring disorders

On average, girls on the autism spectrum are diagnosed 1.5 years later than boys. Over 50% of those on the autism spectrum exhibit co-occurring mental health and medical conditions, such as ADHD and epilepsy.

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·November 1, 2017·5 min read

Babies Can Use Context to Look For Things

At 6 months of age, babies are capable of memory guided attention, a new study reveals. Young infants are able to learn and remember contextual visual cues to find objects of interest, researchers report. The findings shed new light on both typical and atypical brain development.

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·November 21, 2018·7 min read

Brain Computer Interface Enables People with Paralysis to Control Tablets

Researchers report a brain computer interface can enable those with paralysis to directly operate tablet technology just by thinking about cursor movements and clicks.

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·July 7, 2022·5 min read

Brain Pathway That Helps to Explain Light’s Effect on Mood Discovered

Neuroimaging study reveals how light-sensitive signals reach the brain and how regions associated with mood process those signals. Some regions of the cerebral cortex associated with cognitive and mood processing show sensitivity to light intensity.

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·April 1, 2021·8 min read

BrainGate: First Human Use of High-Bandwidth Wireless Brain-Computer Interface

The BrainGate brain-machine interface is able to transmit signals from a single neuron resolution with full broadband fidelity without physically tethering the user to a decoding system.

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·November 8, 2017·6 min read

Bursts of Beta Waves, Not Sustained Rhythms, Filter Sensory Processing in Brain

In both human and animal subject, bursts of beta wave activity in the brain help to filter distraction in order to process different sensations, a new study reports.

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·December 12, 2017·5 min read

Discovery Deepens Understanding of Brain’s Sensory Circuitry

Researchers have identified a new set of matching barrel structures two layers deeper in the cortex than whisker barrels.

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·April 14, 2023·4 min read

Drug Form of Traditional Chinese Medicine Compound Found to Improve Survival in Brain Cancer Models

Indirubin, a natural product found in the indigo plant and used in Chinese medicine, improved survival in mouse models of glioblastoma brain cancer.

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·May 23, 2018·5 min read

Early Life Obesity Impacts Children’s Learning and Memory

A new study reveals children who are either overweight or obese during the first two years of life may have problems with memory and learning at the age of 5. Researchers say IQ scored may be lower for higher weight children.

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·December 1, 2018·7 min read

Early Life Stress Hinders Neuron Development, Causing Attention Disorders: Mouse Study

Female mice who experienced early life stress developed problems and had fewer neurons in areas of the brain responsible for regulating emotions and making sense of rules, researchers report.