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·January 3, 2022·5 min read

When Mom Talks, Are Infants With ASD Listening?

Infants and toddlers on the autism spectrum who showed the poorest neural responses to motherese, or baby-talk by parents, also displayed the most severe social symptoms, poorest language outcomes, and greatest impairments in behavioral preference and attention toward motherese. Conversely, neurotypical children showed stronger neural responses and affinity to motherese.

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·December 21, 2021·5 min read

Botox Injections May Reduce Anxiety

Patients who received botox injections at four different sites, not just the forehead, reported anxiety significantly less than those undergoing different treatments for the same conditions.

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·December 3, 2021·4 min read

Can Seven Questions Determine How Wise You Are?

Wisdom is strongly and positively associated with resilience, happiness, and mental well-being, and negatively correlated with loneliness, depression, and anxiety.

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·November 24, 2021·6 min read

We Might Not Know Half of What’s in Our Cells, New AI Technique Reveals

New artificial intelligence technology reveals previously unknown cell components. The findings may shed new light on human development and diseases.

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·November 23, 2021·4 min read

How Value Decisions Are Coded Into Our Brains

Persistency allows value signals to be most efficiently coded across the brain, specifically in the retrosplenial cortex.

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Artificial Intelligence Featured Neuroscience

·November 8, 2021·3 min read

Want to Throw off Your Chatbot? Use Figurative Language

When chatbots are faced with human interaction containing similes and idioms, their performance falls to between 10 to 20%.

Widely Used Assembling and Stabilizing Forces Behind Brain Synapses Identified

The planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling pathway appears to play a significant role in the formation and maintenance of a large number of synapses.

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·October 6, 2021·8 min read

Mapping the Mouse Brain, and by Extension, the Human Brain Too

New collaborative studies shed light on the organization of cells in key areas of the mouse brain and the organization of transcriptome, epigenomic, and regulatory factors that provide the brain cells with purpose and function.

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·September 27, 2021·5 min read

Withdrawal From Psychostimulants Restructures Functional Architecture of Brain

Withdrawal from psychostimulants including methamphetamines, cocaine, and nicotine, produced restructuring of brain regions and major increases in functional connectivity, a new mouse study reveals.

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·August 23, 2021·4 min read

Eyes Provide Peek at Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

The presence of amyloid-beta deposits in the retina correlated with cerebral amyloid levels in those with Alzheimer's disease. The findings may lead to methods for the earlier detection of Alzheimer's.

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·August 18, 2021·6 min read

Researchers Develop the First Steerable Catheter for Brain Surgery

Researchers have developed a new, flexible and steerable catheter that allows surgeons to guide the device in any direction while traversing the brain's arteries and blood vessels.