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·March 25, 2021·5 min read

Massive Study Reveals Few Differences Between Men and Women’s Brains

A large-scale meta-analysis reveals men and women's brains do have slight differences. However, the differences are due to brain size and not sex or gender. Researchers say brain differences between men and women are small and inconsistent once an individual's head size is accounted for. Read More

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·March 18, 2021·5 min read

Babies Pay Attention With Down Payment From Immature Brain Region

Neuroimaging reveals when babies focus their attention, they utilize areas of the frontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with more advanced functions and previously believed to be immature in children under a year of age. Read More

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·March 13, 2021·3 min read

MRI Scans More Precisely Define and Detect Some Abnormalities in Unborn Babies

MRI imaging is more adept at detecting fetal abnormalities than conventional ultrasound imaging. Read More

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·March 2, 2021·6 min read

The Most Detailed Look Yet at the Neuroscience of Placebo Effects

Patients who reported a greater reduction in pain following being administered a placebo showed larger reductions in brain areas associated with pain construction. Read More

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·February 22, 2021·4 min read

Politics and the Brain: Attention Perks up When Politicians Break With Party Lines

Neuroimaging study reveals that when politicians take politically incongruent stances, people show stronger activation in the insula and anterior cingulate. Read More

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·January 3, 2021·4 min read

A First Look at How the Psychedelic Salvinorin A Works in the Brain

As with other psychedelics, salvinorin A increased activity across the brain. However, salvinorin A use resulted in more random and disconnected signaling in the default mode network, a brain network associated with relaxing and daydreaming. Read More

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·December 17, 2020·6 min read

Big Brains and White Matter: New Clues About Autism Subtypes

Two new studies shed light on brain development and changes in ASD. Researchers found the development of white matter tracts in the brain was linked to the severity of autism symptoms. Additionally, larger brain size at age 3 was linked to a larger brain size later in childhood. Read More

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·November 20, 2020·4 min read

Memories Create ‘Fingerprints’ That Reveal How the Brain Is Organized

Researchers identified several brain areas that acted as hubs for information processing across brain networks that contribute to memory recall. They observed how activation patterns within these networks differed on an individual level, based on personal levels of recall detail and imagination. Read More

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·November 17, 2020·3 min read

Learning a New Language Changes the Brain’s Division of Labor

Learning a new language as an adult alters hemisphere specialization for comprehension, but not for production. Read More

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·November 9, 2020·4 min read

Study Finds Evidence of Neurobiological Mechanism for Hallucinations and Delusions

Hallucinations and delusions share a common neurobiological mechanism while simultaneously depending on symptom-specific pathways. Read More

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·October 19, 2020·6 min read

Fear and Anxiety Share Same Bases in Brain

Fear and anxiety share overlapping neural circuits. The findings contradict the popular belief that anxiety and fear are distinct emotions with different triggers and segregated brain circuits. Read More

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·October 5, 2020·3 min read

Dog Brains Do Not Prefer Faces

fMRI study reveals dogs do not have a specific face area similar to that of primates. Dogs' brain activity showed little response to faces but increased in response to seeing another dog over a human. Read More

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