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Researchers have discovered specific activity patterns in the brains of people with autism. These consistent patterns of functional connectivity might be used in the long term as therapeutic biomarkers. The idea behind this is that in future, doctors w…
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New research indicates that, unlike other anxiety disorders, social anxiety disorder may have a direct effect on alcoholism.
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Without an intact hippocampus, forming new memories is impossible. Researchers have found an equally important role for the hippocampus: feeding information to brain areas responsible for learning. Using fMRI, the research team found it was the hippoca…
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Scientists have discovered that an existing therapy frequently used to treat Alzheimer’s disease might also work on patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a type of dementia that destroys language and currently has no treatment.
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Why do animals sleep? Why do humans ‘waste’ a third of their lives sleeping? Researchers now reveal a novel and unexpected function of sleep that they believe could explain how sleep and sleep disturbances affect brain performance, aging and various br…
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Researchers have found that muscle fatigue caused by overexertion when practicing a skill can affect the task in hand and impair learning afterwards.
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Scientists have shown for the first time that the brain is involved in the development of a heart condition called Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). They found that regions of the brain responsible for processing emotions and controlling the unconscious workin…
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Scientists have uncovered a new ‘division of labor’ between our brain’s two hemispheres in how we comprehend the words and other sounds we hear — a finding that offers new insights into the processing of speech and points to ways to address auditory d…
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An analysis of brain scans from more than 600 children and adolescents reveals genetically-mediated associations between the size of evolutionarily novel brain regions and intelligence test scores. Genetic influences on the brain follow the patterns of…
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Researchers studied the synchronization of speech motor rhythms. Results show some people’s brains adapt spontaneously to align with the rhythm of the voices they hear, while others do not. According to the research study, these patterns show differenc…
