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·September 14, 2020·3 min read

How the Brain Creates the Experience of Time

Time-sensitive neuron fatigue in the supramarginal gyrus skew how we perceive time.

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·September 10, 2020·5 min read

Binge-Drinkers’ Brains Have to Work Harder to Feel Empathy for Others

Study reveals binge drinking is associated with more widespread neural dysfunction than previously believed. In those who binge drink, the visual areas of the brain show unusually high levels of activation. Additionally, those who binge drink have more difficulty in feeling empathy for others.

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·September 9, 2020·4 min read

Older Women With Type 2 Diabetes Have Different Patterns of Blood Use in Their Brains

Older women with type 2 diabetes do not use as much oxygenated blood in their brains as those who do not have the disease. Findings demonstrate alterations in neural blood use are a primary reason for deficits in motor function experienced by those with diabetes.

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·September 9, 2020·4 min read

Imagery Reveals Autism-Related Brain Differences

People on the autism spectrum have lower levels of a protein that regulates serotonin in the brain.

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·September 9, 2020·5 min read

People With Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Show Brain Similarities and Differences

Those with body dysmorphic disorder and anorexia have abnormalities in activity and connectivity in visual and parietal brain networks. People with anorexia and body dysmorphia process images with high, low, or normal levels of detail. The abnormalities for low level of detail have the most direct relationship with disorder symptom severity and body perception.

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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.

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·September 5, 2020·5 min read

New Discoveries on Decision-Making Process

Neuroimaging and computational neuroscience studies reveal different ways and brain areas implicated in decision making.

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·September 4, 2020·7 min read

The Biological Roots for Adolescent Risk-Taking

Areas of the brain associated with socioemotional and cognitive control working in combination at a specific age or point in time, are definitive factors in risk-taking behaviors.

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·September 2, 2020·4 min read

Bilingual Children May Lose Less Brain Matter as They Grow Up

Growing up speaking two or more languages was associated with increased gray matter in the brain during adulthood.

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·September 1, 2020·5 min read

How Brain Flexibility Emerges in Infants

Neuroimaging study reveals how human brain complexity and cognitive flexibility develops during early infancy.

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·August 31, 2020·4 min read

Unraveling the Potential of the Unconscious Mind

People can learn to use the non-conscious content in their brains to make profitable decisions. Findings suggest a novel form of non-conscious metacognition.

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·August 31, 2020·6 min read

Warning Witnesses of the Possibility of Misinformation Helps Protect Their Memory Accuracy

When people were warned about the inaccuracy of retelling events, they were less susceptible to misinformation. Providing warnings increased reinstatement of visual activity associated with witnessing an event and decreased the reinstatement of auditory activity associated with hearing misleading post-event information.