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Georgetown University Medical Center

·March 15, 2024·3 min read

Brain Abnormalities in Children with Developmental Language Disorder

Researchers have discovered that the anterior neostriatum, a part of the brain linked with movement, shows abnormalities in children with developmental language impairments. This study utilized a novel computational approach to analyze data from 22 studies, revealing that these abnormalities are uniquely prevalent in the anterior neostriatum.

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·July 5, 2023·4 min read

Rethinking Speech Recognition: An Unexpected Discovery in Brain’s Lexicon

Researchers identified the brain's verbal language catalog, or auditory lexicon, in an unexpected location: the front of the primary auditory cortex, not its back. This discovery defies a century-long assumption about brain organization and could significantly influence strategies for recovery and rehabilitation post-brain injury.

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·November 9, 2022·7 min read

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Is as Effective as an Antidepressant Drug for Treating Anxiety Disorders

Study reveals mindfulness-based stress reduction methods proved to be as effective as antidepressants for relieving symptoms for those with anxiety disorders.

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·October 10, 2022·5 min read

After Stroke in an Infant’s Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side

In children who experienced a left-hemisphere stroke within days of birth, brain plasticity allows the right hemisphere to acquire language abilities normally handled by the left hemisphere while maintaining its own language ability as well.

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·August 19, 2021·4 min read

Key Mental Abilities Can Actually Improve During Aging

Orienting and executive inhibition, two key brain functions associated with attending to new information and focusing on important aspects of a situation, can improve in older individuals. These functions underlie aspects of cognition, including memory and decision making, and even navigation, math, and language.

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·October 26, 2020·4 min read

Study of Reaching and Grasping With Hand or Foot Reveals Novel Brain Insights

The brain processes motor commands, not just through fine muscle contractions, but also via higher-level motor areas that provide a blueprint for performing more complex motor functions, such as grasping, no matter if the toes or fingers are used.

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·September 9, 2020·4 min read

Unconscious Learning Underlies Belief in a God

People whose brains are more predisposed to implicit pattern learning are more likely to believe in a deity, researchers report.

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·September 7, 2020·4 min read

Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres to Understand Language, Unlike Adults

Unlike adults, infants and young children use both hemispheres of their brain to process language.

This shows a brain made up of cog wheels

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·June 5, 2020·2 min read

Early-life education improves memory in old age, especially for women

Females who attend school for longer have better memory ability in old age, a new study reports. For each year of education, memory gains were, on average, five times greater for women than the losses experienced due to each year of aging.

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·December 30, 2019·4 min read

Combining neurologic and blood pressure drugs reduces breast tumor development

Combining medications used to treat neurological disorders, such as epilepsy and migraines, with blood pressure medications reversed some aspects of breast cancer in mice at high risk of developing the disease due to the high-fat diets fed to their mothers during pregnancy.

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·October 23, 2019·3 min read

Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw

Crashes in visual processing occur when neurons processing one image are tasked with processing another too quickly. This results in either one or both images being unable to reach our conscious awareness.

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·October 22, 2019·4 min read

Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia

New findings dispute the popular cerebellar deficit hypothesis of dyslexia. Researchers report the cerebellum is not engaged during reading in typical readers and does not differ in children with dyslexia.

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Georgetown University Medical Center

Brain Abnormalities in Children with Developmental Language Disorder

Rethinking Speech Recognition: An Unexpected Discovery in Brain’s Lexicon

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Is as Effective as an Antidepressant Drug for Treating Anxiety Disorders

After Stroke in an Infant’s Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side

Key Mental Abilities Can Actually Improve During Aging

Study of Reaching and Grasping With Hand or Foot Reveals Novel Brain Insights

Unconscious Learning Underlies Belief in a God

Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres to Understand Language, Unlike Adults

Early-life education improves memory in old age, especially for women

Combining neurologic and blood pressure drugs reduces breast tumor development

Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw

Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia

Targeting Reward Pathways to Treat Depression

Maternal X Chromosome Accelerates Brain Aging

Dopamine Drives Aggression Learning in Males

Microglia Act Differently in Male and Female Brains

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