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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.

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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.

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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.

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·September 29, 2020·5 min read

Repeated Pregnancy Loss May Be Tied to the Olfactory System

Women who experience unexplained repeated pregnancy loss (uRPL) process olfactory signals related to male body odor differently to other women. Those who experience uRPL are better able to identify the smell of their spouse.

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·September 24, 2020·5 min read

How Changes in Healthy Brain Structure Affect Cognition

Neuroimaging study ties the degradation of circuitry in one area of the brain to reduced efficiency of executive function in older adults.

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·September 15, 2020·5 min read

Risk Gene for Alzheimer’s Has Early Effects on the Brain

Young adults with the Alzheimer's associated ApoE gene had differences in brain activity when presented with memory tasks.

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·September 14, 2020·3 min read

Smartphones Can Predict Brain Function Associated With Anxiety and Depression

Data collected from smartphones can accurately predict connectivity between brain regions associated with emotional processing. Analyzing cellphone data, such as social activity, screen time, and location, alongside fMRI brain scans, researchers found smartphone data activity mirrors brain activity associated with depression and anxiety.

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·September 14, 2020·3 min read

How the Brain Creates the Experience of Time

Time-sensitive neuron fatigue in the supramarginal gyrus skew how we perceive time.

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·September 10, 2020·5 min read

Binge-Drinkers’ Brains Have to Work Harder to Feel Empathy for Others

Study reveals binge drinking is associated with more widespread neural dysfunction than previously believed. In those who binge drink, the visual areas of the brain show unusually high levels of activation. Additionally, those who binge drink have more difficulty in feeling empathy for others.