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·June 5, 2023·7 min read

Boosting Infant Brains: Parental Speech Enhances Baby’s Development

New research revealed compelling evidence that caregiver speech significantly enhances infants' brain development and long-term language abilities. Using MRI and audio recordings, the researchers demonstrated a clear association between the amount of words infants hear from their caregivers and the development of their brain's white matter, which facilitates information processing.

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·November 14, 2022·5 min read

High-Fat Diet Can Provoke Pain Sensitivity Without Obesity or Diabetes

High-fat diets induce hyperalgesic priming, a neurological change that represents the transition from acute to chronic pain, and allodynia or pain resulting from stimuli that do not normally provoke pain.

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·October 26, 2022·6 min read

How Early Fears Play a Role in Future Anxiety and Depression

Behavioral inhibition at 12 to 24 months of age was associated with an increased risk of developing depression, more so than anxiety, during later life. This is especially true for inhibited children who showed blunted activity in the ventral striatum during adolescence.

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·October 25, 2022·4 min read

Pain’s Molecular Origins

A new study will explore the genesis of pain on a molecular and cellular level, with the goal of finding new treatments for chronic pain conditions.

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·March 20, 2022·5 min read

Researchers Map Human Sensory Neurons, Pursue Chronic Pain Cure

Study reveals how the origins of pain are generated by nociceptors in the dorsal root ganglia.

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·September 24, 2020·5 min read

How Changes in Healthy Brain Structure Affect Cognition

Neuroimaging study ties the degradation of circuitry in one area of the brain to reduced efficiency of executive function in older adults.

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·July 23, 2020·6 min read

Age Differences in How the Brain Perceives and Remembers

Scene selective cortical regions are more sensitive to age than face-selective regions when it comes to memory and perception.

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·January 29, 2020·5 min read

Study challenges assumptions about social interaction difficulties in autism

Successful social interactions for adults on the autism spectrum revolve around partner compatibility, not just the skill set of the other person.

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·September 4, 2019·5 min read

Autism study stresses importance of communicating with all infants

Parents who communicate with their infants help improve language skills and later abilities. Researchers say parents can make a significant difference in language development, even in children with an ASD diagnosis.

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·September 4, 2019·4 min read

‘Hunger Hormone’ Linked to Memory in Alzheimer’s Study

A study that used postmortem brain tissue samples from Alzheimer's patients and mouse models found the hunger hormone ghrelin is linked to cognitive impairments and memory loss associated with the disease.

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·April 8, 2019·5 min read

Migraine-linked protein exhibits sex-specific pain effects

CGRP, a protein associated with migraine pain, appears to act differently between sexes. Researchers say a female-specific mechanism of downstream CGRP receptor activation is likely to contribute to the higher prevalence of migraine in women.