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·February 23, 2020·2 min read

Childhood trauma changes your brain, but it doesn’t have to be permanent

Female rats that experienced early life adversity developed abnormal connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in response to neglect.

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·February 21, 2020·3 min read

Why do we sometimes have trouble paying attention?

Patterns of functional connectivity reliably predict when people were more or less focused on a task.

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·February 19, 2020·4 min read

Neuroimaging reveals empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest

Brain 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.

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·February 19, 2020·5 min read

Machine learning identifies personalized brain networks in children

Study 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.

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·February 18, 2020·3 min read

Time of day affects global brain fluctuations

The strength of the brain's global signal fluctuation decreases as the day progresses.

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·February 17, 2020·4 min read

How 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.

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·February 12, 2020·3 min read

Researchers stimulate areas vital to consciousness in monkeys’ brains, and it wakes them up

Stimulating the central lateral thalamus in monkeys under anesthesia was enough to wake the animals and elicit normal waking behaviors.

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·February 11, 2020·5 min read

Research points to potential brain marker of stress and its effects on problem solving

Genetics 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.

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·February 10, 2020·3 min read

Sensory perception is not superficial brain work

When exposed to auditory stimulation, visual areas of the brain decreased in activity. Findings suggest sound can strongly draw attention away from what we are looking at.

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·February 3, 2020·5 min read

Army develops big data approach to neuroscience

Big data study combines information from a diverse set of experiements to identify patterns of brain activity common across people and tasks.

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·January 30, 2020·3 min read

High and low exercise intensity found to influence brain function differently

Low-intensity exercise triggers brain networks associated with cognitive control and attention processing, while high-intensity exercise activates networks involved in emotional processing.