Neuroscience

Brains Benefit From Meditation- Here's How

People who meditate seem to be able 'switch off' areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a new brain imaging study  published in the Proceedings of the Nationa ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2011 - 7:03am

Violent Video Games Alter Young Brains

The controversy over whether or not violent video games are potentially harmful to players has been debated for many years, even making it to the Supreme Court in 2010. There has been little scientific evidence demonstrating that the games have a prolonged ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2011 - 4:00pm

Want Someone Who Listens? Get A Baby

Babies love to communicate and they're great listeners, even early on.   New research shows that during the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2011 - 9:13am

Hypothalamus Changes: Obesity Alters The Brain Area Involved In Body Weight Control

The number of people with one or more of the adverse complications of obesity, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease is rapidly increasing. Drugs designed to treat obesity have shown limited efficacy and have been associated with serious side effect ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2011 - 5:40pm

This Brain Region Activates To Rationalize "Selling Out"

A neuro-imaging study found that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered money to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold. Sacred values- those 'sell your soul' issues- prom ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2012 - 1:01pm

Men Have Better Memories- Of Unpleasant Experiences, Anyway

If you've ever wondered why the man in your life can't recall your discussion of organic squash from 20 minutes ago but he can vividly recall the time 11 years ago when you insulted his "Captain Planet ad the Planeteers" figurines, ther ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2012 - 12:31pm

Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting For Artificial Brains

I can feel it in the air, so thick I can taste it. Can you? It's the we're-going-to-build-an-artificial-brain-at-any-moment feeling. It's exuded into the atmosphere from news media plumes (" IBM Aims to Build Artificial Human Brain Wit ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Feb 2 2012 - 10:09am

So What Would Count As Mindreading?

If you are reading this then the recent research by Brian Pasley and colleagues in which speech sounds are reconstructed from measured brain activity has probably already come onto your neuro-radar. It's certainly drawn a lot of media coverage, with ...

Article - Chris Martin - Feb 6 2012 - 7:18pm

Citizen Scientists Mapping the Connectome

I've just begun reading the recently released review book, " Connectome," from  Sebastian Seung  of  MIT. The basic notion of the book is that you  are  the emergent result from the interconnections of some 100 billion neurons in your brain ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Feb 14 2012 - 11:55am

A Definitive FMRI Test For Narcissism

Put a hand on your widow's peak. About an inch below your fingertips in your medial prefrontal cortex is the home of your sense of self. Julian Keenan, director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab at Montclair State University, did a nifty trick: He use ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 11 2012 - 8:19am