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·August 5, 2011·2 min read

Project to Use Prison Research in Studying Neural Basis of Psychopathy

A leading University of Chicago researcher on empathy is launching a project to understand psychopathy by studying criminals in prisons....

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·July 15, 2011·4 min read

The Neuroscience of Creepy Robots – The Uncanny Valley Phenomenon

Your Brain on Androids Ever get the heebie-jeebies at a wax museum? Feel uneasy with an anthropomorphic robot? What about...

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·June 29, 2011·2 min read

Researchers Can Predict Future Actions from Human Brain Activity

Brain research predicts premeditated actions Bringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers at The University of Western Ontario...

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·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...

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·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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·April 9, 2011·5 min read

Researcher Doggedly Pursues New Treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients in Coma

Familiar voices, magnetic stimulation being tested in 2 clinical trials We’ve all watched it unfold on soap operas, medical dramas...

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·April 9, 2011·2 min read

People Control Thoughts Better When They See Their Brain Activity

As humans face increasing distractions in their personal and professional lives, University of British Columbia researchers have discovered that people...

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·February 28, 2011·3 min read

Quit Smoking Messages in the Brain

Quit smoking messages were more effective when tailored toward an individual and when that individual showed greater activity in self-related...

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·December 10, 2010·5 min read

World’s First Basic Research Institute for Childhood Neurological Diseases Opens

The world's first basic research institute for childhood neurological diseases opened in Houston, Texas and is part of the Texas Children's Hospital. Some of the research the new research insitute will focus on includes childhood neurological diseases such as autism, epilepsy, Rett syndrome, cerebral palsy, ataxias and Batten disease. More details about the new institute are provided in the press release below.

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·October 7, 2010·2 min read

Neuronal Mechanisms Of Prosocial Behavior

Neuroscientists have provided an insight into the neuronal mechanisms involved in prosocial behavior, and how they are modulated by perceived group membership. Researchers suggest that there is a neurobiological basis of whether people chose to help, or withdraw help, based on positive or negative identification of the person in pain.

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·September 24, 2010·2 min read

Gamers Have Advantage In Performing Visuomotor Tasks

A study published in October's Cortex has shown young people who regularly play video games have an advantage in performing tasks which require visuomotor skills. The study also found that gamers show increased activity in the prefrontal cortex when asked to perform visuomotor tasks. By contrast, non-gamers had more reliant use of the parietal cortex, an area which involves hand-eye coordination, when performing visuomotor tasks.

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·August 18, 2010·3 min read

Older Corpus Collosum Crosstalk Slows Response Times

This research shows that the loss of connections in the corpus collosum could be partly responsible for slower response times seen in older animals and humans due to too much crosstalk and confusion between the brain hemispheres.