How Racial Anxiety Skews Time Perception for Some White Americans
Approaching black people may cause time expansion effects. White Americans who experience anxiety around people of a different race may perceive approaching…
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Alzheimer’s vs Dementia: Key Differences, Symptoms and Causes
Summary: Many people mistakenly use the terms Alzheimer’s disease and dementia interchangeably. Alzheimer’s is one specific form of dementia, but there are…
How Wellbeing May Protect Memory in Midlife
Summary: A 16-year longitudinal study of more than 10,000 adults aged 50 and over shows a consistent association between higher psychological wellbeing…
Next-Gen Brain Monitoring: Real-Time Wearable Neurotech
Summary: New long-term brain monitoring technologies that continuously record neural activity beneath the scalp could transform how epilepsy is diagnosed, tracked and…
Study Finds Potential Cause of Autism and Intellectual Disability
The term intellectual disability covers a wide range of clinical conditions, some with well-defined causes and others that remain unexplained. For example,…
Researchers Map Neural Circuit Driving Risk and Reward Decisions
Summary: Researchers have discovered two distinct groups of neurons in the ventral striatum that separately encode outcomes that are better than expected…
How Autism Can Improve Bystander Intervention
Summary: New research highlights underappreciated advantages of autism in workplace settings, revealing that autistic employees are less susceptible to the bystander effect…
Blood Test Diagnoses Concussion, Predicts Long-Term Impairment
Penn Medicine researchers find that elevated blood levels of a specific protein after traumatic brain injury are linked to white matter damage…
Researchers Pinpoint Brain Cause of Menopausal Hot Flashes
Neuroscientists at Wayne State University School of Medicine have produced the first new insights in years into the neural origins of hot…
New Study Identifies Predictor of Antidepressant Response
Discovery reveals how therapies activate brain stem cells Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a protein that appears to be a common…
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