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Featured Neuroscience Psychology Visual Neuroscience

·March 8, 2023·5 min read

Celebrity Sightings Have a Built-in Contradiction

The faces of celebrities are remembered more precisely, but less accurately researchers say.

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Featured Genetics Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·January 26, 2023·4 min read

Health Impact of Chemicals in Plastics Is Handed Down Two Generations

Paternal exposure to chemicals in plastics can affect the metabolic health of offspring for two generations, a new study reports. Parental exposure to DCHP leads to higher resistance and impaired insulin signaling in both the first and second generations of offspring.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·December 23, 2022·5 min read

Music and Ayahuasca’s Role in Treating Substance Use Disorders in Men

Researchers study the positive effects icaros, a type of traditional Peruvian music, in combination with psychotherapy and the psychedelic drug Ayahuasca has on treating addiction.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 23, 2022·4 min read

How the Brain Stores Remote Fear Memory

Remote fear memories, or memories of trauma formed in the distant past, are stored in the connections between neurons in the prefrontal cortex.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·October 5, 2022·7 min read

Do You Act Before You Think or Think Before You Act?

Even though people engage in seemingly impulsive decision-making, they may actually be predisposed to curtail it.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·September 30, 2022·5 min read

Liking Another Group Doesn’t Mean You Dislike Your Own

Outgroup preference is not necessarily reflective of negative feelings about one's ingroup as much as it positively reflects feelings about the outgroup.

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Featured Neuroscience

·September 23, 2022·3 min read

Robot Sleeves for Kids With Cerebral Palsy

Researchers develop a low-cost "soft machine" robotic sleeve to assist children with cerebral palsy to control their arm movements.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 15, 2022·5 min read

What Guides Our Attention to Faces in Videos Changes With Age

With age, the role of face centering increases when people view others on a television screen.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·July 25, 2022·4 min read

The End of Baldness? The Chemical Controlling Life and Death in Hair Follicles Identified

Researchers discovered how the TGF-beta protein controls the process by which hair follicles, including stem cells, divide and form new cells or orchestrate apoptosis. The findings could provide new treatment options for baldness and therapies to speed up wound healing.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·June 20, 2022·5 min read

Who Benefits From Brain Training and Why?

People who are competent at "near transfer", or skilled ability at similar games, are more likely to also have far transfer skills, meaning a greater ability to focus on daily living activities.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 15, 2021·5 min read

How Diet Influences Taste Sensitivity and Preference

Diet influences dopamine and insulin signaling in the brain, which in turn directly affects the peripheral sensory response in fruit flies. This response influences what the fly decides to eat next.