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·January 21, 2016·5 min read

Why It’s So Hard to Break Habits

A new study reveals habits leave lasting marks on specific brain circuits, priming us to feed our cravings.

Image shows location of the inferior parietal lobe in the brain.

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·January 20, 2016·4 min read

Why Your Brain Makes You Slip Up When Anxious

A new study identifies a brain network that makes us stall and stumble when we're anxious.

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·December 4, 2015·5 min read

Magnetic Stimulation Could Be An Effective Treatment for Cocaine Addiction

A new study reports repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation appears to reduce cocaine use and cravings in those addicted to the drug.

Photo of a participant in the brain to brain communication experiment in an eeg cap.

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·September 23, 2015·7 min read

Remotely Linking Two Brains for a Game of 20 Questions

Researchers use direct brain to brain communication to enable two people to play a game of 20 questions by transmitting signals from one brain to another via the internet.

Image shows the researcher looking at scans on a computer monitor.

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·September 23, 2015·5 min read

Neural Taskmaster: How the Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Keeps Us on Task

Researchers report on the important role the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex plays in keeping us on task.

This shows MRI scans where the brain plasticity has taken place.

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·September 9, 2015·5 min read

Brain Plasticity and Leprosy: Nerve Damage Caused by Ancient Disease Can Alter the Brain

According to researchers, peripheral nerve damage caused by leprosy can induce changes in the brain.

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·August 28, 2014·5 min read

Electric Current to Brain Boosts Memory

Using TMS to stimulate the hippocampus, researcher report they were able to improve memory.

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·June 29, 2014·4 min read

Watching Individual Neurons Respond to Magnetic Therapy

Researchers have developed a method to measure the response of an individual neuron to transcranial magnetic stimulation.

The image shows the researcher using the TUS

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·May 15, 2013·3 min read

‘Good Vibrations’! Brain Ultrasound Improves Mood

Researchers have investigated transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) for modulating mental states in human volunteers suffering from chronic pain.

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·January 16, 2013·3 min read

Research Reveals How the Human Brain Adapts to Injury

Scientists used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover how the human brain adapts to injury. The research shows that when one brain area loses functionality, a back-up team of secondary brain areas immediately activates, replacing not only the unavailable area but also its confederates.

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·June 1, 2011·2 min read