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·January 6, 2020·6 min read

Severe childhood deprivation has longstanding impacts on brain size in adulthood

Young adults who faced extreme deprivation as children had, on average, an 8.6% smaller brain size than their peers who did not suffer from deprivation. The deprivation related changes in brain volume were associated with lower IQ and increased ADHD symptoms.

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·January 5, 2020·5 min read

Up to 10,000 people could be living with rare neurological disorders

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal syndrome (CBS), two atypical parkinsonian syndromes, may be twice as common as previously believed, researchers report.

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·January 3, 2020·3 min read

Your Brain: Individual & Unique

Individual variations define a specific structural fingerprint with a direct impact on the functional organization of individual brains. The findings stress the importance of using individual models to understand brain function.

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·January 3, 2020·6 min read

Artificial intelligence could help breast screening save more lives

A new artificial intelligence system is capable of surpassing human experts in breast cancer prediction. The system provided absolute reductions of up to 5.7% in false-positive diagnoses and up to 9.4% in false-negative predictions of the disease.

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·January 3, 2020·4 min read

Research identifies changes in neural circuits underlying self-control during adolescence

Structure and functional coupling in the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex supports age relates improvements in executive abilities.

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·December 31, 2019·7 min read

Justified and unjustified movie violence evokes different brain responses

Scenes of justified and unjustified violence in movies activate different areas of the adolescent brain. Unjustified violence activates the lateral orbital frontal cortex, while scenes where violence appears justified, activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

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·December 30, 2019·3 min read

What comes first, beta-amyloid plaques or thinking and memory problems?

Subtle changes in thinking and memory may appear before, or in conjunction with, the development of amyloid plaques.

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·December 28, 2019·5 min read

Here’s what happens in the brain when we disagree

When people disagree, their brains become less sensitive to the strength of other peoples' opinions.

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·December 27, 2019·3 min read

Can MRI predict intelligence levels in children?

Combining deep learning technology with MRI brain scans, researchers were able to predict fluid intelligence in children.

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·December 20, 2019·5 min read

A surprising new source of attention in the brain

The posterior inferotemporal cortex plays a critical role in attention. Researchers say the discovery may require rethinking old concepts of attentional control.

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·December 18, 2019·4 min read

Dogs process numerical quantities in similar brain region as humans

fMRI neuroimaging reveals the parietotemporal cortex of dogs responds to numeric concepts. The study provides evidence that numerosity is a shared evolutionary neural mechanism.