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·November 11, 2015·3 min read

Mindful Meditation Reduces Pain More Effectively than Placebo Treatments

Researchers report people who participated in mindful meditation received more pain relief than those who used placebo meditation techniques and creams.

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·November 10, 2015·5 min read

It’s All In The Tone

A new study reports on neural communication pathways for prosody.

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·November 10, 2015·3 min read

Blood-Brain Barrier Opened Non-Invasively to Deliver Chemotherapy

Researchers have successfully used focused ultrasound to non-invasively penetrate the blood-brain barrier and deliver chemotherapy to a patient with brain cancer.

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·November 9, 2015·3 min read

Ability to Recognize Objects and Faces Can Be Predicted by Thickness of Gray Matter

According to a new study, the thickness of the fusiform face area can predict a person's ability to recognize faces and objects.

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·November 8, 2015·3 min read

Could a Nicotine Patch Help Treat Memory Loss?

A new study will test the effectiveness of nicotine patches in improving memory loss in people with mild cognitive impairment.

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·November 6, 2015·4 min read

Possible Depression Signature in TBI Discovered

Researchers have identified a potential brain based biomarker that could help identify TBI patients at risk for depression.

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·November 5, 2015·6 min read

How Positive Stimuli Provides Positive Benefits to the Distracted Brain

Researchers have identified how the brain processes and differentiates between negative and positive emotions.

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·November 3, 2015·2 min read

A Better Way to Map Brain Tumors

Researchers have discovered a protein that helps map the edges of brain tumors so they show up more clearly on MRI scans.

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·November 1, 2015·4 min read

New Computational Strategy Finds Brain Tumor Shrinking Molecules

According to a new study, computer modeling has been able to identify a molecule which inhibits a transient cellular event that drives glioblastoma brain cancer.