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·November 5, 2018·2 min read

Disrupted Circadian Rhythms May Drive Anxiety and Exacerbate Brain Disorders

Researchers report sleep disruptions may not only be a symptom of neurological diseases, circadian rhythm disruptions may drive the brain pathology that contributes to anxiety, dementias and other disorders.

Autism Featured Genetics Neuroscience Psychology

·November 5, 2018·4 min read

Master Key Gene Has Links to ASD and Schizophrenia

Researchers implicate MIR-137 as a potential causal factor in schizophrenia and ASD.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·November 5, 2018·3 min read

Cognitive Changes in Offspring of Heavy Cannabis Users: Rat Study

A new study reports prenatal exposure to cannabis could cause alterations in brain development, negatively impacting cognitive function as adults.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·November 5, 2018·2 min read

Lasting Effects of Early Life Stress on Genome, Gut and Brain

Researchers report stress during fetal development and early childhood can have lasting implications for brain development, leading to increased risks of brain disorders later in life.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 22, 2018·3 min read

Nose Breathing Enhances Memory Consolidation

A new study reports you may be able to improve long term memory consolidation by simply breathing through your nose.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 15, 2018·4 min read

How the Brain Detects, Identifies and Acts on Taste

A new EEG study sheds light on how we identify and discriminate between tastes to assess if a substance is nutritious or toxic.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 8, 2018·1 min read

Life is Like a Box of Hippocampal Scenes

A new neuroimaging study of people watching the movie Forrest Gump reveals the hippocampus is sensitive to meaningful units of experience, rather than perceptual cues.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·October 1, 2018·3 min read

Learning to See Friendly Faces in Different Places

Researchers report on how the brain learns to recognize an individual face, regardless of where it appears in different visual locations.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 24, 2018·3 min read

How Nature and Nurture Shape the Sleeping Brain

Using EEG to study twin teenagers, researchers tease apart the influence of genetic and environmental factors on brain activity during sleep.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 4, 2018·3 min read

Eye Movements Take Edge off Traumatic Memories

Researchers report EMDR, a widely used but controversial psychotherapy technique, can help suppress fear related amygdala activity during the recall of traumatic memories.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 14, 2018·3 min read

How the Brain Biases Beliefs

Researchers report the interaction between two regions of the prefrontal cortex may underlie our motivation to cling to a desirable notion about the future.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 14, 2018·3 min read

Adult-Child Conversations Strengthen Language Regions of Developing Brain

Researchers report the greater conversational turn taking between adults and children, the stronger the connections are between the Wernicke's area and Broca's area in the child's brain.