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·October 5, 2018·3 min read

How the Brain Learns During Sleep

A new study sheds additional light on how the brain consolidates memory during sleep. Researchers report rapid fluctuations in gamma band activity in the hippocampus during nREM sleep helps facilitate memory reactivation.

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·September 7, 2018·3 min read

How the Brain Forgets on Purpose

Researchers implicate the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in in our ability to actively forget a memory.

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·August 22, 2018·3 min read

How Brains of Doers Differ From Those of Procrastinators

Researchers use neuroimaging technology to identify brain differences between those who procrastinate and those who are doers. The study reveals people with poor action control have a larger amygdala, and the connection between the dorsal ACC and amygdala is less pronounced.

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·June 8, 2018·4 min read

Virtual Brain Gives Insights Into Memory Deficits in Depression

Researchers have developed a new computational model of major depressive disorder. The model reveals older memories, as well as short term memories, are affected by major depressive disorder. Researchers say how long the memory deficits go back depends on how long the depressive episode lasts.

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·June 5, 2018·4 min read

What Effect Does TMS Have on the Brain?

Researchers report transcranial magnetic stimulation predisposes neural connections in the visual cortex for reorganization.

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·May 17, 2018·3 min read

Smarter Brains Run on Sparsely Connected Neurons

A new study reveals the brains of higher IQ people tend to have leaner, yet more efficient neural connections. Researchers report, the more intelligent a person, the fewer dendrites they have in their cerebral cortex.

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·May 3, 2018·4 min read

Crocodiles Listen to Classical Music in MRI Scanner

Exposing crocodiles to a variety of auditory and visual stimuli while in an MRI, researchers discover their brain processing patterns resemble that of other mammals and birds. The researchers speculate the fundamental mechanisms of sensory processing were formed at an early evolutionary stage.

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·March 8, 2018·3 min read

How the Brain Might Compensate Stress During Learning

A new study reveals how the brain manages to perform learned categorization while under stress.

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·December 27, 2017·3 min read

How Odors Are Turned into Long Term Memories

A new study reveals the piriform cortex is able to archive long term memory, but requires instruction from the orbiotfrontal cortex to indicate the event is to be stored as a long-term memory.

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·December 20, 2017·5 min read

Antidepressant May Help Combat the Course of Multiple Sclerosis

A new Nature Communications study reports the antidepressant Clomipramine may relieve symptoms of primary progressive multiple sclerosis.

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·September 30, 2017·4 min read

Gamers Have an Advantage in Learning

People who play video games for more than 15 hours per week performed better in learning tasks and showed increased activity in brain areas associated with memory than non-gamers, a new study reports.