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·February 20, 2021·4 min read

Neural Pathway Critical to Correcting Behavioral Errors in Psychiatric Disorders Identified

Study identifies a neural pathway associated with error monitoring and attention function in some psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, ASD, and schizophrenia. Researchers say the pathway could be modulated with the help of transcranial magnetic stimulation or transcranial direct current stimulation.

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·September 23, 2015·5 min read

Neural Taskmaster: How the Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Keeps Us on Task

Researchers report on the important role the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex plays in keeping us on task.

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·November 30, 2017·5 min read

Brain Scans Reveal Why Rewards and Punishments Don’t Seem to Work on Teens

Researchers investigate the teenage brain and answer questions as to why behaviors change so much during these years.

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·April 13, 2017·4 min read

Mind Wandering Is More Than Just A Fault In The System

Researchers report two neural networks broadly overlap in people who intentionally let their minds wander.

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·September 15, 2018·5 min read

Diving In to How Our Brains Process Information

Researchers are embarking on a new project to better understand the mechanisms of cognitive control.They hope to generate a specific mathematical model for each individual's brain activity in order to understand how cognitive control differs between people.

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·October 30, 2019·4 min read

Patients with mood, anxiety disorders share abnormalities in brain’s control circuit

Patients with mood and anxiety disorders have abnormally low activation in brain areas associated with cognitive and emotional control. Brain scans also revealed hyperactivity in brain areas linked to the processing of emotional thoughts.

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·December 16, 2016·3 min read

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Improves Cognitive Control

Applying transcranial direct current stimulation to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex can help to improve cognitive control and may be a beneficial treatment for those with autism, schizophrenia and ADHD, a new study reports.

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·March 8, 2018·3 min read

How the Brain Might Compensate Stress During Learning

A new study reveals how the brain manages to perform learned categorization while under stress.

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·October 6, 2015·6 min read

Wired for Cognitive Control

A new study reveals which parts of the brain are most able to exert cognitive control over actions and thoughts.

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·June 28, 2018·13 min read

Living with Sensory Processing Disorder

Scientists are beginning to understand the neuroscience behind sensory processing disorder and are developing new therapies to help those with SPD.

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·October 10, 2019·5 min read

Brain scans may provide clues to suicide risk

Neuroimaging can be used to assess a person's risk of suicidal behavior. Those with mood disorders, a history of suicidal thoughts, and those with a history of suicide attempts have less connectivity in the cognitive control network. They also have reduced connectivity between the cognitive control network and the default mode network.

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·January 3, 2019·4 min read

Video Game Based ‘Digital Medicine’ May Help Children with ASD and Co-Occurring ADHD

Study confirms the acceptability, feasibility and safety for using Project: EVO, a action video game experience, for children on the autism spectrum with co-occurring ADHD.

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