Neuroscience
- Does Learning A Foreign Language Stimulate Cerebral Growth?
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The thought that learning language stimulates brain growth may never have crossed your mind, but the truth is that language learning challenges your brain and stimulates it to stay pliable and strong. Regardless of your age, learning a new language can bo ...
Article - Anton Lucanus - Jan 7 2022 - 11:53pm
- SARS-CoV-2 Is A Respiratory Virus, But 'Long Covid' Effects In The Brain Are Real
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All coronaviruses, and certainly SARS-CoV-2, have become famous as a respiratory virus, but acute COVID-19 infection has been linked to many different organ systems, including the brain, resulting in a wide range of neurological complications with long-las ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2022 - 7:38pm
- We Hear Differences Without Listening
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Our auditory system is able to detect sounds at an implicit level. The brain can distinguish between even very similar sounds, but we do not always recognize these differences. A new study demonstrated using sound perception during passive listening; when ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2022 - 5:52pm
- Why Women Are More Susceptible To Alzheimer’s Disease
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Being a woman is correlated to being twice as men to develop Alzheimer's disease, but lacking a scientific foundation for why, epidemiology is limited to noting it on a population level and moving on. A new paper seeks to create a biological hypothesi ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2022 - 11:27am
- Bruce Willis Has Aphasia: What Does That Mean?
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In an Instagram post, the family of Bruce Willis revealed that the actor has been diagnosed with aphasia, and the cognitive decline resulting means he is stepping away from his acting career. Aphasia is devastating for an actor because all three kinds- Bro ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2022 - 12:47pm
- Lower Risk Of Alzheimer’s Correlated To Higher Omega-3 DHA Levels
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It's difficult to imagine that a simple dietary intervention could mean less Alzheimer’s disease but that is why observational studies and epidemiology claims are placed into the exploratory pile until science can take a look. A new paper correlates p ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2022 - 9:28am
- How The Brain Reduces The Urge To Act Impulsively
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We all know people who have poor impulse control. They can't open a bag of chips without eating the whole thing, or they lose their temper over something minor and can't calm down. A new study finds it may involve two major circuits in the basal ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2022 - 10:33am
- Appetite Map Of How Brain Functions Shape Cravings
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Why do most people eat dessert after dinner but not before? Culture, or the brain? The prevailing belief is that the body often needs protein so only after that is obtained are carbohydrates 'craved', to add to the body’s fat stores. Yet it is n ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2022 - 9:34am
- Babies Learn Language Just After Being Born
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We often think of babies as blank canvases with little ability to learn during the first few weeks of life. But babies actually start processing language and speech incredibly early. Even while in the womb, they learn to discern voices, along with some sp ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 18 2022 - 12:08pm
- AI Algorithm Detects Brain Abnormalities- And May Help On The Road To Curing Epilepsy
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The Multicentre Epilepsy Lesion Detection project (MELD) used over 1,000 patient MRI scans from 22 global epilepsy centers to develop an algorithm which provides reports of where abnormalities are in cases of drug-resistant focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) – ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2022 - 8:00am