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·July 20, 2022·4 min read

Higher Voice Pitch Lets Female Faces Appear Younger

Higher pitched voices in women influence how their faces are evaluated, researchers report. The faces of women with higher-pitched voices were perceived as being younger. However, researchers found no evidence of a link between vocal pitch or perceptions of facial attractiveness, health, or femininity.

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·July 15, 2022·3 min read

Neuronal Cell Type for Controlling the Flow of Information in the Brain Discovered

By briefly inhibiting other cells, neurogliaform cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus ensure that current perception and memories of past experiences can be processed both separately and in combination with each other.

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·July 8, 2022·3 min read

Online Art Viewing Can Improve Well-Being

Visiting online galleries not only allows for a greater opportunity for art to be seen by the public, it also helps improve mood, reduces anxiety, and provides a greater sense of well-being.

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·October 20, 2021·3 min read

How an Enriched Environment Fires up Our Synapses

Post-genomic analysis of the regulation of synapses in a rodent hippocampus sheds new light on the interaction of proteins and lipids within the synaptic membrane.

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·September 3, 2021·5 min read

Gut Bacteria Influence Brain Development

An overgrowth in the gastrointestinal tract of the bacteria Klebsiella in preterm babies was associated with an increased presence of certain immune cells and the development of neurological damage. The findings suggest a link between microbiota and brain development.

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·June 28, 2021·4 min read

Sunflower Seed Peptide Could Treat Pain and Inflammation

Synthetically optimizing a peptide commonly found in sunflower seeds could help provide relief for gastrointestinal pain and inflammation, a new study reports.

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·February 9, 2021·4 min read

Marmoset Monkeys Have Personalities Too

A new study sheds light on personality traits in marmoset monkeys.

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·February 6, 2021·4 min read

Ultrasound in the Treatment of Brain Diseases

The TPS neural stimulation technique is able to non-invasively target and activate deep brain regions, providing a new treatment potential for a range of neurological and psychological disorders.

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·August 20, 2020·5 min read

When Learning on Your Own Is Not Enough

Neuroimaging study reveals social learning is represented in the anterior cingulate cortex, while direct learning is represented in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The two areas both interact with the striatum, which helps compute both reward prediction error and social prediction error.

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·November 24, 2019·3 min read

United in musical diversity

There are universal properties of music that reflect deeper commonalities in human cognition.

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·June 18, 2019·3 min read

Antidepressants can reduce ’empathic empathy’

Antidepressants for major depressive disorder reduce the aversive response triggered by exposure to the suffering of others. Findings suggest antidepressants may lead to impaired empathy of pain perception.