Eye-tracking reveals the brain pays more attention to conventional metaphors than it does to similar alternatives.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Mapping Neurons in the Brain Involved With Social Interactions With Others in Groups
The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in mapping out personal actions and outcomes as well as responding to the actions of others.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Bat Study Reveals Secrets of the Social Brain
Wireless neural recordings of freely interacting bats provides new insight into how the brain processes group communication.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Practice Really Does Make Perfect
The old adage that practice makes perfect may very well be true, according to neuroscientists. Researchers found when a male zebra finch is in the presence of an attractive female and delivers its rehearsed mating call, a noradrenaline release in the b…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Gut-Brain Axis Response to Inflammation May Underlie Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Related Mental Symptoms
The vascular barrier in the choroid plexus locks down access to the brain in response to gut inflammation that causes IBD. The dysregulated activity of the gut-brain vascular axis appears to protect the brain from inflammation. However, the mechanism m…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Anxiety Impacts Ability to Perceive Changes in Breathing
People with higher levels of anxiety have altered perceptions of their breathing compared to those with lower levels of anxiety. The altered perception of respiration can lead to an increase in feelings of anxiety, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Prozac Pegged as Potential First Treatment for a Leading Cause of Blindness
Fluoxetine, the antidepressant commonly known as Prozac, may be beneficial for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration. Researchers found Prozac significantly slowed the rate at which people over 50 developed AMD.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Looking Beyond the Individual Brain to Study the Collective Mind
In order to better understand the role that knowledge serves in human intelligence, it is essential to look beyond the individual and focus studies on the community overall, researchers say.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Health of Older People Is Tied to Motivation
Motivated older people have better outcomes when it comes to general health, researchers say.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How an Enriched Environment Fires up Our Synapses
Post-genomic analysis of the regulation of synapses in a rodent hippocampus sheds new light on the interaction of proteins and lipids within the synaptic membrane.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Glial Cells Crucial to Maintaining Healthy Gut Immunity
Glial cells coordinate immune responses in the gut following infection. Researchers report glial cells could be targets for therapeutics to treat inflammatory bowel disorders.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Psychotic Experiences in Children Predict Genetic Risk for Mental Disorders
Genetic risk for mental health disorders is associated with brain structure and the occurrence of psychosis-like experiences in children between 9 and 10 years of age.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Epilepsy Research Reveals Unknown Trigger for Seizures
When dysfunctional, somatostatin interneurons drive brain activity and provoke seizures.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Scientists Enable a Blind Woman to See Simple Shapes
Researchers created a form of artificial vision for a blind woman with the aid of a brain implant position in the visual cortex. The results pave the way for the creation of visual brain prosthetics to help the blind to regain sight.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Hit the Sleep Sweet Spot to Keep Brain Sharp
Too much or too little sleep were both linked to increased risk of cognitive decline, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: What Happens in Your Brain When You Make a Decision?
Researchers examine the neuroscience behind why we make certain decisions when faced with multiple choices.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Drug Helps Sensory Neurons Regrow in the Mouse Central Nervous System
Fenofibrate, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat high cholesterol, activated support cells around sensory neurons in mouse models of spinal cord injury, helping them regrow twice as fast as a placebo.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Brain Activation in Sleeping Toddlers Shows Memory for Words
Scanning the brains of sleeping toddlers, researchers found the hippocampus is activated as memories for new words are formed. The findings suggest the hippocampus plays an important role in the formation of new word memories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Brain Cells Talk
A new study expands the understanding of how brain cells communicate. Researchers discovered reversing the modification of molecular messages at the synapse may contribute to reversible psychiatric disorders and early-stage neurodegenerative diseases.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: In Your Face: Children’s Expressions Tell the Story of Poor Sleep
For children, emotional facial expressions could reveal whether they had a good night’s sleep. Researchers found emotional expressivity following sleep restrictions could also forecast later life social problems.
