Neuroscience

High-Fat Meals: Males Impacted Most

Unless you are trapped at a Larry Summers protest at Harvard in 2006, you know that male and female brains are not equal in all ways. Another study affirms that, finding a difference when it comes to the biological response to a high-fat diet. Cedars-Sina ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2014 - 12:31pm

Gene Duplications Associated With Autism, Schizophrenia Evolved In Last 250,000 Years

 A region of human chromosome 16, known as 16p11.2, is prone to genetic changes in which segments of DNA are deleted or duplicated and is considered to be one of the leading candidates for genetic causes of autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions. A n ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2014 - 10:52am

Fairness May Be Built Into The Brain- But Fairness Doesn't Mean Equal Income

Is fairness built into the brain? According to a new Norwegian brain paper, people appreciate fairness- but fairness is not that everybody gets the same income, which is sure to concern those who believe all money should be distributed equally. Economists ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 11:33am

Moderate Pot Use By Adolescents Doesn't Hurt IQ

A paper presented at the annual congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) in Berlin says that moderate cannabis use by adolescents does not lead to educational or intellectual decline, but that heavy cannabis use is associated wit ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 7:30pm

Drink Up, Baby Boomer: Alcohol Associated With Better Memory

A new study found that people ages 60 and older who do not have dementia benefit from light alcohol consumption; it has been associated with higher episodic memory, the ability to recall memories of events.  Moderate alcohol consumption was also linked wi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 6:39pm

Cocoa Flavanols Reverse Age-Related Memory Decline

A new study has found that  age-related memory decline in healthy older adults can be reversed by dietary cocoa flavanols, the naturally occurring bioactives found in cocoa. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 8:00am

We Can Restore Cognition By Manipulating Where The Body Meets The Mind

Targeting cognition through the body. Cognition by Shutterstock By Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science; Aleksandra Deczkowska, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Kuti Baruch, Weizmann Institute of Science ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 28 2014 - 2:57pm

Okay With Disgusting Images? You Vote This Way 95 Percent Of The Time

Maggot infestations, rotting carcasses, unidentifiable gunk in the kitchen sink – how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether you are liberal or conservative. If you don't want to read any further because this is based on ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2014 - 4:46pm

Here's A Brainwave – Magnetic Pulses Could Treat Autism

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation can help alleviate symptoms of autism, such as anxiety. AGUILA_JONATHAN /Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Peter Enticott, Deakin University ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2015 - 11:55am

No Brain Differences Between Autistic And Typical Individuals Over Age 6

In what they are terming the largest MRI study to date, a group of researchers writing in Cerebral Cortex  have found that the brain anatomy in MRI scans of people with autism above age six is mostly indistinguishable from that of typically developing ind ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2014 - 10:45am