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·August 21, 2023·3 min read

Life’s Hard Knocks: How Adversities Reshape Our Brain’s Future

A new study reveals how life's adversities influence the brain's patterns, potentially forecasting the onset of psychiatric disorders. Drawing from data of approximately 170 individuals, the study discerned a strong connection between past adversities and present brain patterns.

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·August 21, 2023·4 min read

Anxiety and the Brain: The Forebrain’s Role in Social Decisions Unveiled

Researchers discovered that anxious individuals utilize a less optimal region of the forebrain when navigating socially challenging situations compared to their non-anxious counterparts. This was determined through brain scans that mapped regions active during simulated social scenarios.

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·July 4, 2022·3 min read

Connectivity of Language Areas Unique in the Human Brain

Researchers shed new light on how the human brain evolved to be language-ready. Compared to the brains of chimps, the patterns of connections of language areas in the human brain expanded more than was previously thought.

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·February 1, 2022·4 min read

Growth Charts for the Brain Help to Understand Mental Illness

Researchers have developed new brain growth charts that provide reference models for brain development and aging across the entire lifespan.

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·January 28, 2022·2 min read

Babies Are Sensitive to Rhyme, Rhythm and Phrases in Children’s Songs

Babies are sensitive to language patterns in the soothing rhymes their parents sing them.

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·December 30, 2021·4 min read

Can an Accent Influence Moral Decision-Making?

When presented with a moral decision in their native language by people with a foreign accent, people tend to make more rational decisions.

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·August 3, 2021·3 min read

Simlish Is Less Distracting Than English in Background Music During a Conversation

Background music in Simlish, an unintelligible language used in the popular game The Sims, allow people to better listen to and understand each other than when the songs are in English, researchers say.

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·June 7, 2021·6 min read

Sleep Problems in Autism Linked to Glial Cells, Blood-Brain-Barrier and Serotonin

A study in fruit fly models of autism reveals sleep disruption associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder is associated with elevated levels of serotonin. The origin of the higher levels of serotonin was discovered to be in glial cells in the blood-brain barrier.

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·March 2, 2021·4 min read

A Genetic Patch to Prevent Hereditary Deafness

A newly developed "genetic patch" can eliminate problematic hearing cells in those with DFNA9, a hereditary form of deafness.

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·February 19, 2021·4 min read

Brain Activity Can Predict Resilience Against Post-Traumatic Stress

Higher activity in the anterior prefrontal cortex was associated with more resilience to the effects of post-traumatic stress.

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·July 26, 2020·7 min read

Genetic Mutations Predispose Individuals to Severe COVID-19

Study identifies the TLR7 gene as an essential player in the immune response against coronavirus infection.

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·April 4, 2019·5 min read

Associating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!

While only 1 in 25 people has synesthesia, a new study reports intuitions about 'sound colors' are shared by a greater percentage of people. Sound color perception is mainly driven by the vowels in language.

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