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Link between autism and cognitive impairment discovered

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 29, 2020

Study identifies a short gene segment crucial for brain development and information processing. The absence of the gene segment induces altered social behaviors, learning difficulties, and memory deficits, which are hallmarks of a subset of ASD.... Read More...

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Using caffeine as a tool to study information processing

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 13, 2020

Study reveals caffeine may be a useful tool to study information and cognitive processing.... Read More...

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Mindfulness video game changes areas of the brain associated with attention

Neuroscience NewsDecember 27, 2019

Tenacity, a newly developed video game that promotes mindfulness, alters connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the inferior parietal cortex. These areas of the brain are critical for attention. After playing the game for a short period, participants reported improvements in attention.... Read More...

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Smart people may learn music faster

Neuroscience NewsNovember 15, 2019

The strongest predictor of musical skill acquisition is intelligence, followed by musical aptitude.... Read More...

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What your friends’ brains look like when they think of you

Neuroscience NewsNovember 7, 2019

To accurately perceive another person, your neural representation of that person has to match the pattern in the persons' brain when they think about themselves.... Read More...

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Faith, truth and forgiveness: How your brain processes abstract thoughts

Neuroscience NewsOctober 29, 2019

The human brain acts like an indexing system to help compose the meaning of abstract concepts.... Read More...

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A new theory of brain organization takes aim at the mystery of consciousness

Neuroscience NewsOctober 27, 2019

Entropy during consciousness is higher than during unconscious states.... Read More...

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Navigating ‘Neuralville’: Virtual town helps map brain functions

Neuroscience NewsOctober 7, 2019

Combining neuroimaging and a constructed virtual reality town, researchers found the brain uses three different systems to perceive environment. One system allows us to recognize a place, another helps navigate through that location, and the third helps navigate from one place to another. The parahippocampal place area (PPA) helps encode location recognition, while the retrosplenial complex allows for mentally mapping the locations of specific places.... Read More...

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Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing

Neuroscience NewsOctober 7, 2019

Criticality in the brain was linked to inhibitory neurons imposing and organizing the computational dynamics.... Read More...

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Low-cost blood pressure drug improves brain function in individuals with autism

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 18, 2019

Propranolol, a common 'beta-blocker' drug used to control blood pressure, could be a promising new treatment for those on the autism spectrum. The medication improved cognitive performance and positively altered the frontal-parietal control network, an area of the brain associated with word and information processing, in those with ASD.... Read More...

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