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Using Electrical Brain Stimulation to Foster Creativity

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 19, 2018

Researchers debate the growing use of tES to enhance creativity, concluding there is a potential value in brain stimulation. However, researchers say, the use of tES raises a number of neuroethical, legal and social issues that must be addressed.... Read More...

FeaturedNeuroethicsNeuroscienceneurotech7 min read

Newborn Babies Who Suffered Stroke Regain Language Function in Opposite Side of Brain

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 19, 2018

According to researchers, following a perinatal stroke that damages the language area in the left hemisphere, the brain remaps to use the right hemisphere for language.... Read More...

FeaturedNeurology5 min read

Language is Learned in Brain Circuits that Predate Humans

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 29, 2018

A new study reveals language is learned in brain systems that predate humans.... Read More...

FeaturedNeuroscience6 min read

Impact of a Genetic Risk Factor For Substance Use Differs By Sex in Adolescents

Neuroscience NewsNovember 13, 2017

Study finds a sex difference in a gene linked to substance abuse risk in adolescents.... Read More...

FeaturedGeneticsPsychology4 min read

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Parkinson’s Associated Protein Linked to Human Upper GI Tract Infections

Neuroscience NewsJune 27, 2017

A new study reports chronic infections of the upper gastrointestinal tract could be linked to Parkinson's disease. Researchers say alpha synuclein, a Parkinson's linked protein, is released during upper GI infections, inducing an immune response. Findings suggest frequent chronic infections could overwhelm the body's ability to remove the protein, leading to the onset of Parkinson's.... Read More...

FeaturedNeurologyOpen Neuroscience Articles8 min read

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Mindful Meditation Training Lowers Biomarkers of Stress Response in Anxiety Disorder

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 27, 2017

According to researchers, mindful meditation can reduce stress hormones and inflammatory responses to stressful situations in people with GAD.... Read More...

FeaturedPsychology6 min read

News

Scientists succeed in testing potential brain-based method to diagnose autism

Researchers link new protein to Parkinson’s

Anxious people quicker to flee danger

Neuroscience

Scientists succeed in testing potential brain-based method to diagnose autism

Anxious people quicker to flee danger

When does clean eating become an unhealthy obsession? New findings on who is at risk

Neurology

Researchers link new protein to Parkinson’s

Brain network activity can improve in epilepsy patients after surgery

Patients with both schizophrenia and epilepsy die alarmingly early

AI

Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

New AI Sees Like a Human, Filling in the Blanks

Robotics

Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

New AI Sees Like a Human, Filling in the Blanks

Room for thought: Brain region that watches for walls identified

Psychology

Anxious people quicker to flee danger

When does clean eating become an unhealthy obsession? New findings on who is at risk

Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

Georgetown University Medical Center

Using Electrical Brain Stimulation to Foster Creativity

Newborn Babies Who Suffered Stroke Regain Language Function in Opposite Side of Brain

Language is Learned in Brain Circuits that Predate Humans

Impact of a Genetic Risk Factor For Substance Use Differs By Sex in Adolescents

Parkinson’s Associated Protein Linked to Human Upper GI Tract Infections