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·August 9, 2017·4 min read

Playing With Your Brain: The Negative Impact of Action Video Games

A neuroimaging study reveals response learners show a decrease in hippocampal gray matter after playing action based video games for 90 hours.

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·July 21, 2017·3 min read

New Model for the Origin of Grid Cells

A new study theorizes the development of grid cells depends upon the synaptic input from place cells.

Image shows the location of the entorhinal cortex in the human brain.

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·May 12, 2017·3 min read

Dementia Related Brain Changes Seen Before Memory Problems Are Noticeable

Researchers have identified a potential neuroimaging predictor for dementia that highlights brain structural changes that may occur years before people even notice memory problems.

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·April 13, 2017·5 min read

Human Cognitive Map Scales According to Surroundings

A new study investigates how we are able to assess new locations and become orientated with the help of visual cues.

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·April 7, 2017·5 min read

Brain’s Navigation Is More Complex Than Previously Thought

New discovery could change the way we think about how the brain helps us to navigate.

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·March 30, 2017·5 min read

Brain’s “GPS” Does a Lot More Than Just Navigate

The entorhinal cortex plays a much broader role in memory and learning than previously thought, researchers report.

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·February 3, 2017·4 min read

Brain Plasticity: How Adult Born Neurons Get Wired

Researchers report adult neurogenesis not only helps increase the number of cells in a neural network, it also promotes plasticity in the existing network. Additionally, they have identified the role the Bax gene plays in synaptic pruning.

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·January 19, 2017·5 min read

Excess Tau Protein Damages Brain’s GPS For Alzheimer’s Patients

The spatial dissociation in Alzheimer's disease that causes people to wander may be a result of tau accumulation in the entorhinal cortex's grid cells, a new study reports.