Neuroscience
- Can Alpha Waves Reveal The Bias In Your Brain?
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Though implicit bias- the belief that you are prejudiced, it's just a matter of degree- is controversial, that's only because it lacks scientific footing. A new study seeks to advance that. We all have likes and dislikes but when it becomes bias ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2020 - 2:25pm
- What Brain Images Of The Three-Million-Year Old Lucy Species Just Revealed
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Brain volume changes during evolution have shown how modern human brains diverged from the brains of our closest primate cousin, the chimpanzee, and a new study takes that a step further. CT-scans of three-million-year old brain imprints inside fossil skul ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2020 - 4:07pm
- The Biology Of Depression- Similarities In Suicide And Other Brains
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There is no question depression can have physical effects but it is unclear how much of depression is caused by biology and how much is psychology. A new study finds there are increased amounts of an unmodified structural protein, called tubulin, in lipid ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2020 - 12:08pm
- Are You Anxiety Prone? It May Be SLC6A4 Serotonin Cleanup Proteins
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Anxiety-prone people can blame serotonin cleanup proteins gone awry in their amygdala, according to research in marmosets recently published in JNeurosci. Targeting the amygdala with anti-anxiety medication could provide quicker relief. The same event or ...
Article - News Staff - May 11 2020 - 7:19pm
- FMRI Images Are Just Pretty Pictures
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Ten years ago science journalists talked about functional MRI (fMRI) scans all of the time. Because if a part of the brain lit up when someone did, said, or read something, it went into a paper. Few asked who was doing the interpreting, how legitimate the ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2020 - 3:51pm
- Amodal: We Begin Linking Vocal And Facial Emotion At Age 8
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Emotions are an integral part of our lives. They influence our behavior, perceptions, and day-to-day decisions. The spontaneous amodal coding of emotions- independent of perceptual modalities like the physical characteristics of faces or voices- is easy f ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2020 - 2:21pm
- There Are Detectable Brain Differences Between Musicians And Non-Musicians
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Music is in most aspects of our lives we probably don't even notice it- but it can be noticed in our brains. A new study examined the brains of non-musicians, western classical musicians, and eastern classical musicians, as they were exposed to unfami ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2020 - 10:31am
- That Music Training Makes Kids Smarter Might Be Spurious Correlation
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Music training can make us well-rounded, it may change the way we think, and music is fun, but claims that it makes kids smarter may have hit a sour note. Smart people often play musical instruments as well, so that has led to research trials seeking a cau ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2020 - 12:56pm
- The Neuroscience Reason Some Can Identify Smells Precisely And Others Have A Harder Time
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When we talk about sight or hearing, the mechanisms that lead us to distinguish two colors or two notes have been well-established and translated into practical use. For example, we know which wavelength will appear red and which frequency will make us hea ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2020 - 1:10pm
- UK Transgender Individuals 3X More Likely To Be Autistic
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Compared to cisgender people (gender identity corresponds to their sex), an analysis of over 600,000 adults finds transgender and gender-diverse adults are three to six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic. The findings are simply exploratory and ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2020 - 12:58pm