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Functional magnetic resonance imaging

·February 22, 2012·2 min read

An Off Switch for Pain

Chemists build light-controlled neural inhibitor. The notion of a pain switch is an alluring idea, but is it realistic? Well,...

Neuroscience

·May 13, 2011·4 min read

As Time Goes by, It Gets Tougher to ‘Just Remember This’

It’s something we just accept: the fact that the older we get, the more difficulty we seem to have remembering...

Autism Featured

·September 19, 2012·5 min read

Autistic Adults Have Unreliable Neural Responses, Carnegie Mellon-Led Research Team Finds

Neuroscientists take the first step toward deciphering the connection between general brain function and emergent behavioral patterns in autism. Study shows that autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory and somatosensory, or touch, stimuli.

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Autism Featured

·February 14, 2013·4 min read

Behavioral Therapy for Children With Autism Can Impact Brain Function

Using fMRI for before-and-after analysis, a team of researchers discovered positive changes in brain activity in children with autism who received a particular type of behavioral therapy.

Autism Featured Neuroethics Neuroscience

·February 17, 2012·3 min read

Brain Differences Seen at 6 Months in Infants Who Develop Autism

Researchers have found significant differences in brain development in infants as young as six months old who later develop autism,...

Featured Psychology

·August 9, 2012·2 min read

Brain Hubs Boil when Hoarders Face Pitching Their Own Stuff

In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others’ possessions, but over-activated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things.

Featured Neuroethics Neuroscience

·April 13, 2012·3 min read

Brain Network Reveals Disorders

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich identify a new method of unerringly detecting the presence of pathophysiological...

Featured Psychology

·October 24, 2012·3 min read

Brainwave Training Boosts Network for Cognitive Control and Predicts Mind Wandering

Using several neuroimaging methods, a team of researchers working at the University of Western Ontario have now uncovered that functional changes within a key brain network occur directly after a 30-minute session of noninvasive, neural-based training.

Psychology

·February 17, 2012·2 min read

Chess Experts Help Researchers Understand How We See the World

UT Dallas team aids study of how humans view game boards, faces and other visual information. Just as expert chess...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroethics

·July 26, 2012·2 min read

Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light

Researchers can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The findings represent a key advance for optogenetics, a state-of-the-art method for making causal connections between brain activity and behavior. Researchers say that similar light-based mind control could likely also be made to work in humans for therapeutic ends.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 19, 2011·2 min read

Effects of Obesity On the Brain: Sex-Related Differences in the Brain’s White Matter

Effects of obesity on the brain: first evidence of sex-related differences in the brain’s white matter structure Obesity is today...

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Featured Neuroscience Business Psychology

·September 19, 2013·4 min read

Financial Boom and Bust Drivers, All in the Mind?

Biological mechanisms in the brains of traders lead them to predict how others will behave, resulting in stock marketing bubbles crashing; a new study suggests.

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