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Besides triggering the brain’s emotional and stimulus-response systems, environmental cues activate areas where memories are processed, according to this study. Prompting these memory processing systems makes it extra difficult to counter addiction bec…
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Serious diseases are directly linked to the subcortical areas of the brain. Existing treatments for regulating and measuring the activity of the subcortical areas are highly invasive. Researchers have decided to see whether a noninvasive method — elec…
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Scientists have made a breakthrough in identifying a potential cause of the most severe child speech impediment — apraxia. One in 1000 children has apraxia, but understating the origins of this debilitating speech disorder has until now remained elusi…
February 27, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Does education shape our moral values, or are our genetic profiles also responsible? New research suggests that DNA may play an important role.
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A study has found the first common genetic risk variants for autism and uncovered genetic differences in clinical subgroups of autism. The discovery means that we will in future be able to determine the genes which separate the diagnostic groups, make …
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Neuroscientist show that people with dyslexia have a weakly developed structure that is not located in the cerebral cortex, but at a subcortical processing stage; namely the white matter connectivity between the left auditory motion-sensitive planum te…
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Brain cells recorded as among the least electrically active during a specific task may be the most important to doing it right.
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For most children, the sound of their mother’s voice triggers brain activity patterns distinct from those triggered by an unfamiliar voice. But the unique brain response to mom’s voice is greatly diminished in children with autism, according to a new s…
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A powerful neuroscience tool is available to investigate brain development, mechanisms of memory and learning, and brain dysregulation in neuropsychiatric diseases like addiction, depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. This molecular biolog…
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In contrast to studies of mice and rats, new research investigating the effect of methylphenidate (Ritalin) on neuronal activity in monkeys has found no effect of the drug on the prefrontal cortex. The study leaves open the question of how and why Rita…
