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·June 25, 2014·5 min read

Neural Sweet Talk

A new study reports taste related words like 'sweet' or 'bitter' engage emotional centers in the brain more than literal words with the same meaning.

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·June 24, 2014·2 min read

Helpful Bouncing Babies Show That Moving Together to Music Builds Bonds

Moving in time with another to music helps babies to bond, a new report suggests.

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·June 24, 2014·3 min read

Study Finds Learning by Repetition Impairs Recall of Details

Researchers discover that while repetition enhances the factual content of memories, it also reduces the amount of details stored.

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·June 23, 2014·4 min read

Sensitive? Emotional? Empathetic? It Could be in Your Genes

A new neuroimaging study finds physical evidence that the highly sensitive brain responds powerfully to emotional images.

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·June 18, 2014·4 min read

Portable Brain Mapping Device Allows Researchers to See Where Memory Fails Student Veterans

Using a portable brain mapping device, researchers discover limited prefrontal cortex activity among student veterans with PTSD when asked to recall information from simple memory tasks.

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·June 18, 2014·4 min read

Researchers Link Placental Marker of Prenatal Stress to Brain Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Researchers discover OGT, an enzyme in the placenta, translates maternal stress into a reprogramming signal for the brain before birth.

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·June 13, 2014·3 min read

Reward Response May Demonstrate Why Quitting Smoking Is Harder for Some

Researchers identify an aspect of brain activity that helps to predict the effectiveness of a reward-based strategy as motivation to quit smoking.

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·June 12, 2014·5 min read

When Good People Do Bad Things

New research finds being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal morality.

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·June 11, 2014·6 min read

From Contemporary Syntax to Human Language’s Deep Origins

New research amplifies hypothesis that human language builds on birdsong and speech forms of other primates.

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·June 10, 2014·4 min read

Inside the Adult ADHD Brain

Researchers find key differences in a brain communication network between adults who had recovered from childhood ADHD, and adults that had not.

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·June 7, 2014·3 min read

New Evidence Links Air Pollution to Autism and Schizophrenia

Researchers describe how early life exposure to air pollution produces significant brain changes, including enlargement of the part of the brain seen in humans with autism and schizophrenia.