May 23, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new study suggests that as little as two weeks of compassion meditation training — intentionally cultivating positive wishes to understand and relieve the suffering of others — may reduce the distress a person feels when witnessing another’s suffer…
May 22, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new study indicates eye movement can reveal the proficiency of people reading English as a second language.
May 22, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
Theoretical and experimental results demonstrate a new insight for optimizing rTMS, one of the common non-invasive magnetic brain stimulation therapies used to treat brain disorders such as depression and neuropathic pain.
May 22, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research has found that young people with subtle hearing loss — the kind they aren’t even aware of — are putting demands on their brains that typically wouldn’t be seen until later in life.
May 22, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
Using male individuals has long been a tradition in scientific mice studies. But new research enforces the importance of using a balanced population of male and female mice. Scientists studying the locus coeruleus brain structure in mice unexpectedly f…
May 22, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
We are all familiar with the drawbacks of dehydration, but we rarely hear about the harmful effects of overhydration. Scientists have now uncovered a key piece to the puzzle of how our brains detect hyponatremia and regulate overhydration. The new stud…
May 21, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
NASA and private company SpaceX plan to send humans to Mars within the next 15 years — but need to figure out how to protect astronauts from the dangerous cosmic radiation of deep space. Now neuroscientists have identified a potential treatment for th…
May 21, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
A study of epilepsy patients with implanted electrodes provides an unprecedented view of the changes in brain activity created by electrical stimulation. These findings have the potential to improve noninvasive stimulation approaches toward the treatme…
May 21, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
In a first-of-its-kind finding, a new stroke-healing gel helped regrow neurons and blood vessels in mice with stroke-damaged brains, researchers report.
May 21, 2018 by NewsBot - No Comment
Wearable brain monitoring sensors allowed researchers to measure cognitive workload while aircraft pilots completed memory tasks.
