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·May 17, 2017·5 min read

Solving the Mystery of the Link Between Mental and Physical Health

Findings about the brain-body connection may also have implications for treating those with opioid addiction, researchers believe.

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·November 7, 2016·3 min read

How Human Brains Do Language: One System, Two Channels

According to researchers, language is not limited to speech. People also apply the rules of spoken language to sign language.

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·January 27, 2023·4 min read

A Young Mother Is Accused of Killing Her Children: What Is Postpartum Depression and Psychosis?

Researchers discuss how postnatal depression and psychosis can lead some mothers to commit violent acts against or even murder their young children.

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·July 19, 2022·5 min read

Can Listening to the Beatles Improve Your Memory? New Research Says Music Just Might Stir the Brain

Listening to your favorite music increases connectivity in the brain, especially for older people. Researchers said music appears to bridge the gap between the auditory system and the reward system in the brain.

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·May 23, 2022·5 min read

How Do You Know Not to Laugh at a Funeral? This Region of the Brain Is Key

Researchers reveal the role the prefrontal cortex plays in emotional processing and emotional suppression.

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·June 2, 2023·5 min read

Ultra-Processed Foods: AI’s New Contribution to Nutrition Science

Researchers developed a machine learning algorithm, FoodProX, capable of predicting the degree of processing in food products. The tool scores foods on a scale from zero (minimally or unprocessed) to 100 (highly ultra-processed).

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·January 6, 2017·2 min read

How Memory Shapes Our Perception of the Present

Understanding how memory can shape our perception of the present could help people with learning disorders to stay on task, researchers believe.

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·February 23, 2020·2 min read

Childhood trauma changes your brain, but it doesn’t have to be permanent

Female rats that experienced early life adversity developed abnormal connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in response to neglect.

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·January 18, 2020·2 min read

Music helps researchers find link between prediction and pleasure

Exposing subjects to music composed in an unfamiliar scale, researchers test whether reward can be derived solely from newly formed predictions.

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·April 18, 2018·4 min read

Physiological Reactions to Emotions are Not Uniform

A new study upends hundreds of years of belief that physiological responses to emotion are uniform. Researchers report there is not a single physiological fingerprint for each emotion, but a population of potential responses.

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·December 8, 2022·4 min read

The Idea That Mind and Body Are Separate Is Natural, for Neurotypical People

Those on the autism spectrum are more likely to consider the body and mind to be one, while those not on the autism spectrum are more likely to believe the body and the mind are separate entities.