FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 3, 2020·5 min readArtificial sweeteners combined with carbs may be more harmful than sweeteners aloneConsumed alone, artificial sweeteners do not appear to have a negative impact. However, when consumed with carbohydrates, insulin sensitivity changes and the brain has a decreased response to sweet tastes.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·March 2, 2020·5 min readEarliest look at newborns’ visual cortex reveals the minds babies start withA newborn's brain is more adult-like than previously assumed. Neuroimaging revealed much of the visual cortex scaffolding is in place, along with patterns of brain activity at 27 days of age, although it is not quite as strong as seen in adult brains.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 26, 2020·4 min readAnti-psychotic medication linked to adverse change in brain structureSustained use of the antipsychotic olanzapine resulted in potentially adverse alterations in brain structure, specifically cortical thinning.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·February 25, 2020·2 min readSheet Music May Be an Effective Guide For Understanding Human Brain ActivityResearchers are looking to transcribe the brain's complex dynamics into new data models that can help better the understanding of the human brain and cognition.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 23, 2020·2 min readChildhood trauma changes your brain, but it doesn’t have to be permanentFemale rats that experienced early life adversity developed abnormal connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in response to neglect.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 21, 2020·3 min readWhy do we sometimes have trouble paying attention?Patterns of functional connectivity reliably predict when people were more or less focused on a task.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 19, 2020·4 min readNeuroimaging reveals empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at restBrain activity while in a resting state can predict how empathetic a person is. Researcher used a combination of neuroimaging data and machine learning to identify subtle patterns in brain activity associated with empathy.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·February 19, 2020·5 min readMachine learning identifies personalized brain networks in childrenStudy shows how brain networks unique to each child can predict cognition. Using a combination of neuroimaging data and machine learning, researchers reveal functional neuroanatomy can vary greatly among children and is refined during development.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 18, 2020·3 min readTime of day affects global brain fluctuationsThe strength of the brain's global signal fluctuation decreases as the day progresses.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·February 17, 2020·4 min readHow many gender subtypes exist in the brain?Combining fMRI and behavioral data, researchers examined gender identity in cisgender and transgender individuals using a new machine learning algorithm. The AI identified at least nine dimensions of brain-gender variation.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 12, 2020·3 min readResearchers stimulate areas vital to consciousness in monkeys’ brains, and it wakes them upStimulating the central lateral thalamus in monkeys under anesthesia was enough to wake the animals and elicit normal waking behaviors.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 11, 2020·5 min readResearch points to potential brain marker of stress and its effects on problem solvingGenetics testing revealed those with a greater susceptibility to stress have at least one copy of a variation in the serotonin transporter gene. Additionally, changes to connections in the middle temporal gyrus related to changes in cognitive performance during stress.Read More
