Why You Cannot Cheat Aging or Death
Summary: New analyses of human and nonhuman primate populations provide fresh evidence supporting the invariant rate of ageing hypothesis and reinforce the…
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Brain Training Reduces Tourette Tics, New Study Shows
Children with Tourette Syndrome may unconsciously train their brains to better control tics, a University of Nottingham-led study has found. Researchers discovered…
Performance-Enhancing Drug Use Linked to Teen Cocaine Risk
Summary: New research in adolescent female rodents suggests that use of anabolic steroids during adolescence can increase sensitivity to cocaine and may…
New Study Finds Small Brain Area Controls Everyday Decisions
Area’s neurons then can re-map to make different decisions when circumstances change. Everyday choices — from picking a shirt or deciding what…
What Reading Poetry Feels Like: Emotional and Sensory Effects
Summary: Using concepts from neuroscience and contemporary philosophy, a doctoral study explores the bodily and emotional sensations that arise when people read…
Aphantasia: How Brain Wiring Explains Lack of Mental Imagery
Summary: People with hyperphantasia—an unusually vivid capacity for mental imagery—show stronger functional connections between the brain’s visual processing network and decision-making regions.…
How Sleep and Exercise Impact New Moms vs New Dads
Summary: A daily-diary study of new parents shows that sleep and exercise influence mothers and fathers differently. Overall, getting more sleep and…
Study Finds Toxic Blood Protein Linked to Fatal Brain Disease
A new, ultra-sensitive light-based test for measuring the toxic protein that causes Huntington’s disease (HD) reveals the protein accumulates progressively in blood…
Lowering the Brain Filter Boosts Creativity
Inhibiting the Prefrontal Cortex Can Improve Performance on Creative Tasks The brain’s prefrontal cortex is widely regarded as the center of cognitive…
How Stress Affects Your Body: Symptoms and Risks
Summary: Researchers explain how stress affects both body and mind, and offer practical strategies athletes and others can use to reduce its…
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