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Emory Health Sciences

·February 4, 2019·6 min read

Laughter May Be the Best Medicine…For Brain Surgery

Stimulating the cingulum bundle during neurosurgery where people are awake results in immediate laughter, followed by a sense of calm and happiness in patients, a new study reports.

Featured Psychology

·October 23, 2018·5 min read

Schadenfreude Sheds Light on Darker Side of Humanity

Researchers say dehumanization seems to be at the core of schadenfreude, the sense of pleasure at other peoples' misfortune.

Featured Psychology

·August 27, 2018·6 min read

Toddlers Care What Others Think: Sensitivity to How Others Evaluate You Emerges by 24 Months

A new study reports children as young as two years old are able to evaluate the opinions of others and will modify their behavior accordingly when others are watching them.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·May 15, 2018·4 min read

How the Brain Decides to Make an Effort

A new study sheds light on the neural mechanisms behind how we make effortful decisions.

Image shows the basolateral amygdala highlighted in the brain.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 19, 2017·6 min read

Direct Amygdala Stimulation Can Enhance Memory in Humans

Researchers report in a new PNAS study that direct stimulation of the amygdala can enhance memory of images a day later, if the stimulation is applied immediately after the images are viewed.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·November 30, 2017·4 min read

Helping the Brain Prune Bad Habits

Emory researchers report a drug approved in Japan for stroke, can help to stimulate neural pruning and help reduce habit driven behaviors in mice.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·November 10, 2017·5 min read

New Wake Promoting Node Pinpointed in Brain

A new study reports supamammillary glutamate neurons in the caudal hypothalamus play a critical role in wakefulness.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 15, 2017·5 min read

Granulins Are Brain Treasure, Not Trash

A new tool allows researchers to observe granulins inside cells.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 9, 2017·4 min read

Insight into Learning via ‘Friend of Fragile X’ Gene

Researchers report FMR1 and ZC3H14 proteins both regulate mRNA, which may explain their importance in memory and learning.

Autism Featured Genetics

·July 12, 2017·6 min read

How Children Look at Mom’s Face Is Guided by Genetics and Disrupted in Autism

According to a new Nature paper, variation in how children seek social information is under genetic control. Such behaviors are decreases in children with autism, adding further evidence for the link between behavioral presentation in ASD and underlying genetics causes.

Image shows a Parkinson's disease brain sample.

Featured Neurology

·July 3, 2017·4 min read

Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Spurred By Same Enzyme

Researchers have implicated an enzyme that appears to make both Tau and alpha synculein more toxic in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Inhibiting this enzyme has already proved helpful in treating animal models of Alzheimer's disease. The researchers report they are moving on to testing drugs that inhibit AEP in animal models of Parkinson's disease.