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This shows an EEG readout from the study

·April 15, 2019·3 min read

Brain marker for angry dreams

People with greater frontal alpha asymmetry are less able to regulate strong, emotional, affective states, such as anger, in their dreams.

This is a collection of neuroimaging photos from the study.

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·April 8, 2019·3 min read

How education may stave off cognitive decline

Neuroimaging reveals those who have spent more years studying have increased cortical thickness in the medial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal areas of the brain. Researchers also identified enhanced gene expression profiles in these brain regions that promote information processing and provide protection against some age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

An eeg readout of how the brain responds to the earth's magnetic field

Featured Neuroscience

·March 18, 2019·3 min read

Evidence for ancient magnetic sense in humans

A new study reveals the human brain responds to changes in the Earth's magnetic field. Future studies could provide clues into the evolution and variations of magnetoreception in humans.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·February 25, 2019·2 min read

Manipulating Gene Expression in Neurons with CRISPR

By optimizing neurons with CRISPR gene editing technology, researchers will have new ways to study genetic influences on brain health and disease, a new study reports.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·February 25, 2019·3 min read

Eye Contact Prepares Brains for Social Interaction

A new neuroimaging study reveals real time eye contact is a basis for effective social communication. The study found eye contact between two people simultaneously activated the same areas of each person's brain.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·February 25, 2019·3 min read

Ritalin Has No Effect on Primate Prefrontal Cortex

Even at doses that help improve monkeys' attention, researchers observe no differences of neural activity in the prefrontal cortex after administering Ritalin.

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·February 18, 2019·3 min read

How Animals Remember and Find Their Way Back to Food Sources

Study reveals the hippocampus may overlay existing mental maps with information about reward and hazard derived from food found in specific locations.

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·February 18, 2019·3 min read

Brain Represents Optical Illusion as Delayed Reality

Researchers report the same subset of neurons encode actual and illusory flow motion, supporting the concept Jan Purkinje proposed 150 years ago, that "illusions contain visual truth".