Eating a handful of dried goji berries five times a week may help delay or even prevent the onset of age-related macular degeneration. Over a 90 day period, those who ate goji berries had an increase in protective pigments in their eyes.
Brain flow occurs when a person participates in an activity that is engaging enough to involve someone to a point of barely being distracted, but not so difficult that the task becomes frustrating. Flow, researchers say, requires high levels of attention.
Scanning the brains of sleeping toddlers, researchers found the hippocampus is activated as memories for new words are formed. The findings suggest the hippocampus plays an important role in the formation of new word memories.
A new, freely available brain atlas reveals how brain metabolism changes throughout the life of mice.
The hippocampus brings pieces of memories together over time and forms them into connective, narrative memories.
The way in which an infant visually examines an object may predict a later autism diagnosis, researchers say. Unusual visual inspection of items at 9 months was a strong predictor of an ASD diagnosis later in childhood.
Squirrels have four main personality traits, researchers report. Understanding how an animal's personality influences use of space may be important for wildlife conservation.
The cognitive map allows people to compute on the fly with limited information to solve abstract problems.
Domestic cats choose not a contrafreeload, a behavior where most animals prefer to work for their food.
Earworms, those songs that get stuck in your head, may help strengthen memories of music and life events, a new study reports.
Study reveals an association between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk of age-related Alzheimer's disease.
Using rhesus macaques, researchers have developed a new model of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.
