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·April 19, 2021·5 min read

Betaine Supplement Treats Schizophrenia in Mice

Betaine, a dietary supplement extracted from sweet beets, reduces behavioral symptoms of schizophrenia in mice with genetic risk factors for the disorder. The supplement may help protect proteins that build the cellular skeletons of neurons. Read More

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·April 1, 2021·6 min read

Multilingual People Have an Advantage Over Those Fluent in Only Two Languages

Multilingual people have similar brain activation to that of bilingual people, but the activation is much more sensitive and a lot faster. Read More

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·March 27, 2021·6 min read

Measurable Changes in Brain Activity During First Few Months of Studying a New Language

Within months of learning a new language, increased activity in brain areas associated with auditory processing, memory, and grammatical comprehension occurs. As language skills improve, the activity decreases. Read More

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·March 19, 2021·6 min read

Stronger Brain Activity After Writing on Paper Than on Tablet or Smartphone

Writing by hand increases brain activity in recall tasks over taking notes on a tablet or smartphone. Additionally, those who write by hand on paper are 25% quicker at note-taking tasks than those who use digital technology. Read More

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·August 17, 2020·6 min read

Computer IDs Differences in Brains of Patients With Schizophrenia or Autism

Using data from MRI brain scan images, machine learning was 85% accurate at providing a diagnosis of psychiatric disorders that matched psychiatrists' assessments. The algorithm could also distinguish between patients with ASD, schizophrenia, risk factors for psychosis, and those with no history of mental health problems. Read More

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·July 20, 2020·5 min read

Music on the Brain

Trained musicians exhibited an increased ability to predict rhythmic patterns over non-musicians, with more subtle differences between those trained in Japanese or Western classical music styles. Read More

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·March 18, 2020·4 min read

Psychosis linked to the omission of chemical rewards in brain: Mouse study

Researchers investigate the role the dopamine 2 receptor plays in psychosis. Read More

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·December 18, 2019·4 min read

Forgetfulness might depend on time of day

Mouse study reveals a gene that influences memory recall at different times of the day. Researchers identified how the gene causes mice to be more forgetful just before they normally wake. Read More

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·June 4, 2019·4 min read

Exercise fine-tunes brain’s connections, eases autism spectrum disorder in mouse model

Participating in exercise improved synaptic pruning in mouse models of autism. The study also found microglia dependant synaptic pruning is impaired by maternal inflammation, which has been previously connected to the development of ASD. Read More

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·May 21, 2019·4 min read

Optical illusions reveal regular waves of brain activity enable visual feature integration

Optical illusions are helping researchers better understand attention and visual perception. Findings suggest attention operates periodically on the perceptual binding of visual information. Read More

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·April 20, 2019·4 min read

Hello, kitty: Cats recognize their own names

Domestic cats are able to discriminate the content of human speech, including recognizing their names, based upon phonemic differences. Read More

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·January 8, 2019·6 min read

Histamines Can Boost Long Term Memory of Objects

Researchers report histamines can help improve memory of objects up-to 25 days longer than normal in mice, as well as improving people's long term memory test scores. The study suggests taking histamines may help alleviate symptoms of memory disorders such as Alzheimer's and other dementias. Read More

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