How Stress Alters Auditory Processing in the Brain
Summary: New research in mice shows that chronic stress weakens the brain’s ability to register quieter sounds, requiring louder stimuli to evoke…
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Study: 7-Month-Old Babies Recognize Symmetry
Summary: Seven-month-old infants can rapidly detect whether a mosaic-like pattern is structurally symmetrical, indicating an early, automatic ability to extract organization from…
Left- and Right-Handed Brains Use Same Area to Process Numbers
Summary: A new registered fMRI study from Western University finds that the brain represents symbolic numbers in the same brain region for…
Why Children Confront Peers Differently Around the World
Summary: Children across cultures will confront peers who break shared rules, but the ways they do so differ depending on their social…
New Insights into How Emotional Fear Memories Form
Unpleasant experiences often leave lasting traces in the brain. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
Study Details First Person to Person COVID-19 Transmission in US
Summary: A Lancet report details the first documented local transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States: a woman who returned from Wuhan,…
Disease-in-a-Dish Model Could Speed Huntington’s Disease Research
iPS cell technology applied to Huntington’s disease transgenic monkey model Researchers have adapted induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell) technology to a…
How Long-Distance Connections Speed Social Behavior
Summary: A new study examines how behaviors and ideas travel through social networks and finds that long ties—connections that bridge distant parts…
Improve Attention in 30 Days With Mindfulness Meditation
Summary: A new USC study finds that just 30 days of daily guided mindfulness meditation significantly improves attentional control across the lifespan.…
Hidden Genetic Variants Linked to Autism Severity
Summary: Researchers have linked a previously overlooked portion of the human genome to greater severity of autism symptoms. Source: University of Colorado…
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