Growing up poor can influence people’s sense of control and in turn may lead them to more impulsive decision-making and quickly give up on challenging tasks in uncertain situations, according to new…
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Fed up with waiting? Timely activation of serotonin enhances patience
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Lining up in a long queue or waiting for the arrival of someone requires a great deal of patience. Our lives are full of decisions involving patience, yet it needs to be exercised at the appropriate times. In order to examine the brain mechanism for co…
Teens who skimp on sleep may face later obesity risk
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Sleep deprivation has been shown in past research to affect the health of teens in a number of ways.
Attention is drawn to the prevalence of suicide among vets
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Combat-related guilt is the most significant predictor of suicide attempts and of preoccupation with suicide after discharge from the military.
Mouse model for epilepsy, Alzheimer’s gives window into working brain
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A genetically engineered line of mice has been developed that is expected to open the door to new research on epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and other diseases. The mice carry a protein marker, which changes in degree of fluorescence in response to different ca…
Children with autism have extra synapses in brain: May be possible to prune synapses with drug after diagnosis
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Children and adolescents with autism have a surplus of synapses in the brain, and this excess is due to a slowdown in a normal brain “pruning” process during development, according to a new study. Because synapses are the points where neurons conne…
Influenced by self-interest, humans less concerned about inequity to others, researchers find
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Strongly influenced by their self-interest, humans do not protest being overcompensated, even when there are no consequences, researchers have found. This could imply that humans are less concerned than previously believed about the inequity of others,…
Learning to play the piano? Sleep on it!
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According to new research the regions of the brain below the cortex play an important role as we train our bodies’ movements and, critically, they interact more effectively after a night of sleep. While researchers knew that sleep helped us the learn…
Important clue found for potential treatments for absence seizures
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A group of researchers has succeeded in revealing a principle mechanism of a neural network in the human brain, which will provide an important clue to potential treatments for absence seizures. Absence seizures are believed to be elicited by T-type ca…
ADHD children make poor decisions due to less differentiated learning processes
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among school children. Pupils with ADHD often make poorer decisions than their unaffected classmates. Researchers have now discovered that different learnin…
