Head Injuries May Raise Your Brain Cancer Risk
Summary: A large retrospective study of over 75,000 adults found that moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with an increased risk…
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How Exercise Boosts Brain Activity During Depression
Summary: Physical activity produces a twofold benefit for people with depression: it reduces clinical symptoms and enhances the brain’s capacity to adapt…
Why Corporal Punishment Harms Children in Developing Countries
Summary: Researchers report that spanking is associated with lower social development in 3- and 4-year-old children. Source: University of Michigan Spanking may…
Advanced Brain Mapping Reveals Hidden Protein Factories
Summary: For years, researchers treated mRNA levels as a blueprint for protein production in the brain. New research shows that this blueprint…
Early Warning Signs of Language Delays in Children
Summary: The specific kinds of words toddlers learn first—especially nouns organized by shared shape—can help predict which children will have ongoing language…
Neuronal Deficits in Schizophrenia Linked to Genetic Mutation
Summary: Researchers report that neurotransmitter release is impaired in the brains of people with schizophrenia who carry a deletion in the neurexin…
How the Brain Encodes Risky Lottery Choices
Summary: Researchers have identified a specific brain region in rats that plays a decisive role in economic choices under uncertainty, revealing how…
How Negative Experiences Rewire the Brain’s Dopamine System
Summary: The dopamine system helps the brain anticipate when and for how long unpleasant events will occur, but it does so without…
How Music Rewires Your Emotional Memories
Summary: A recent neuroscience study finds that listening to emotional music while recalling neutral events can change the emotional tone of those…
How the Brain Processes Numbers
Summary: Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a reliable method to record human brain activity at the cellular…
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