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·December 23, 2022·6 min read

Can the AI Driving ChatGPT Help to Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease?

OpenAI's ChatGPT program can identify clues from spontaneous speech that are 80% accurate in predicting the early stages of dementia.

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·April 25, 2022·4 min read

Being In Nature: Good for Mind, Body and Nutrition

Connectedness to nature not only improves mental and physical health, it also influences dietary choices and fruit and vegetable intake.

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·October 24, 2021·4 min read

Termite Brains Can Grow in Anticipation of a Single Moment of Flight and Light

Study reveals why select members of a termite community experience brain changes in anticipation of cognitive demands.

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·September 8, 2021·4 min read

What the Brain Shows: The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Creative Arts Therapies

Reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex during virtual reality creative self-expression tasks indicates an enhanced relaxation response.

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·April 9, 2020·5 min read

Aha! + Aaaah: Creative insight triggers a neural reward signal

Neuroimaging study sheds light on what drove the evolutionary development of human creativity.

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·March 31, 2020·5 min read

Where in the brain does creativity come from? Evidence from jazz musicians

Using neuroimaging and EEG technology to analyze the brains of jazz musicians during improvisation, researchers shed light on which side of the brain controls creativity. Musicians relatively inexperienced at improvisation rely on the right hemisphere for creativity. More experienced improvisational jazz musicians show more activity in the left hemisphere when being creative.

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·February 3, 2020·4 min read

Physical activity is good for your appetite, too

Not only does exercise help burn those extra calories, but it can also have a protective effect against overeating, a new study reports.

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·May 7, 2019·5 min read

Train your brain to eat less sugar

A new brain training game in which players navigate a grocery store, earning rewards for selecting healthy food options, may help to reduce the desire to give into sugar cravings. Participants who had higher initial preferences for sugary foods lost as much as 3.1% body weight following daily gameplay.

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·February 14, 2019·5 min read

What Makes Some People Creative Thinkers and Others Analytical

Researchers report the different cognitive styles of creative and analytical thinkers are a result of fundamental differences in neural activity that can be observed when people are not working on a problem.

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·June 22, 2018·6 min read

How Brain Signals Travel to Drive Language Performance

Transcranial magnetic stimulation allows researchers to better understand how brain networks interact to make word choice decisions.

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·June 12, 2018·5 min read

Content of Service Members’ Art Linked to Their Trauma Levels

Researchers discover a correlation between clinical symptoms of PTSD, depression and anxiety in visual self expression masks service members were asked to create during art therapy.