Food for depression: How your diet can help improve depression
Food for depression: Have you ever thought about the effects of your daily food intake on your health? Most likely you know by now that […]
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Decision Making Process: Complete guide
Remember the time when you had to make a difficult decision and it ended up being the right one? Well, what was the process your […]
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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Characteristics, Cures, and Prevention
Neurodegenerative diseases- What are they? Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by damage to the nervous system, causing cognitive decline and changes in brain functions and how the […]
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Light Sleep: Do you wake up feeling refreshed?
Sometimes you just don’t wake up feeling refreshed. Why is that? In this article, we will answer: what is light sleep, what are the sleep […]
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Neurotransmitters: 5 Crazy Chemicals that Control Almost Everything
You’ve probably heard of how dopamine plays a role in feelings of pleasure, or how serotonin levels influence depression. But, neurotransmitters do so much more […]
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Brain seizures: When The Brain Has Too Much Energy
Brain seizures: Some of us have to deal with them every single day, whilst others can be witnesses of someone having a brain seizure. Most […]
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Demyelinating Diseases: A useful guide to diseases involving myelin
What are the types of demyelinating diseases that affect the central nervous system? In this article, we answer all your questions: functions of myelin, causes […]
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Dyspraxia: Is your child clumsy? A reason for this could be this condition
Dyspraxia. It is commonly seen nowadays: On the one hand, you have the group of children that seems to be able to have no problems […]
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Addiction: From Drugs to Brain to Behavior
Addiction is a very common concept in today’s society. When we think about addiction, we usually picture drug addicts, looking for another fix. Addiction, however, […]
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Phantom Pain: The Feeling Is As Real As It Can Get!
Phantom pain is a sensation that various individuals perceive towards a part of the body or an internal organ that doesn’t exist. This phantom pain […]
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Synesthesia: Can You Hear Colors?
What is it like to hear colors and see sounds – people who have synesthesia might be able to give a little insight into that. […]
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Optogenetics: An all powerful revolutionary technique?
Optogenetics is a new form of stimulating and controlling cells in the living tissue. Research is advancing in ways that we have not thought imaginable […]
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Neuroimaging: What is it and how can it map the brain?
One of the ways psychology has progressed came from the use of various neuroimaging methods. In terms of experimental psychology history, neuroimaging started with the cognitive […]
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Neuropsychology: A complete guide to all your questions
We clarify all the questions you may have about neuropsychology: What it is, what does it study, neuropsychologist’s role and patients, what cognitive tests are […]
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Mirror neurons: The most powerful learning tool
Mirror neurons. Imitation has always been a powerful learning tool. The human brain is enabled with different mechanisms that allow us to imitate actions. Babies […]
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Fight or Flight: All You Need to Know About This Response
Fight or Flight. The sympathetic nervous system is one of two subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system, which is part of the peripheral nervous system. […]
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Synapses: How Your Brain Communicates
A synapse is the space between two neurons which allows for neural communication, or synaptic transmission. Synapses are found throughout the body, not just located in […]
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Brainwaves: What They Are and What They Do
Brainwaves are the collection of electrical activity in the brain. This electrical activity is caused by the communication of neurons in the brain. The communication […]
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Endless Possibilities: How Technology Affects Your Brain
In the current times, technology affects your brain in powerful ways that shape who you are as a person. This is especially the case for […]
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How Well Do You Know Your Brain: What Is It?
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It controls everything, from the way we walk to the way we speak. Its has […]
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Sleepless nights with your phone? You may have technological insomnia
Texts from your ex late on a Saturday night (or early Sunday morning?), compromising pictures that his friends post to Facebook… Social networks have robbed us […]
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Fascinating Brain Facts part 2
Fascinating Facts About the Brain – Part 2 In part one of Fascinating Facts About the Brain, we looked at the complexity and main characteristics […]
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5 Myths about the Brain
5 Myths About the Brain The brain is truly an amazing organ. It is extremely intricate, and without it, we would not be able to […]
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Brain stimulation helps recover from stroke
Brain stimulation helps with stroke Stroke is the No. 4 cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the United States, according to […]
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Chemical reaction keeps stroke-damaged brain from repairing itself
Chemical reaction keeps stroke-damaged brain from repairing itself. Nitric oxide, a gaseous molecule produced in the brain, can damage neurons. When the brain produces too […]
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Newfound brain cells linked to high blood pressure
Newfound brain cells linked to high blood pressure. High blood pressure has just gotten a new culprit: a newly discovered brain cell. While the usual […]
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How to ‘take over’ a brain
How to ‘take over’ a brain. The hottest field in science this past decade has been neuroscience. That explosion in research, and our understanding of […]
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Neuristors: The future of brain-like computer chips
Neuristors: The future of brain-like computer chips. A neuristor is the simplest possible device that can capture the essential property of a neuron – that […]
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How neuroscientists observe brains watching movies
How neuroscientists observe brains watching movies. Functional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip. Unless you have been deaf […]
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Mouse brain cells activated, reactivated in learning and memory
Mouse brain cells activated, reactivated in learning and memory. Neuroscientists have for the first time shown individual mouse brain cells being switched on during learning […]
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Stress resilience, susceptibility traced to neurons in reward circuit
Stress resilience, susceptibility traced to neurons in reward circuit. A specific pattern of neuronal firing in a brain reward circuit instantly rendered mice vulnerable to […]
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Brain cells made from urine
Brain cells made from urine. Human excreta could be a powerful source of cells to study disease, bypassing some of the problems of using stem […]
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New biomaterials can promote regeneration of brain tissue after brain injury and disease damage
New biomaterials can promote regeneration of brain tissue after brain injury and disease damage. Research at the Universitat Politècnica de València has shown that a […]
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World’s largest brain simulation has 2.5 million neurons
World’s largest brain simulation has 2.5 million neurons. With 2.5 million simulated neurons, a team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have claimed the […]
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In brain, competing thoughts come in waves and rhythms
In brain, competing thoughts come in waves and rhythms. Emerging evidence suggests that a group of neurons can represent each unique piece of information, but […]
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Joubert syndrome in humans
Joubert syndrome in humans. This is a rare neurological condition that is linked with autism-spectrum disorders and brain structure malformations.
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A better brain implant: Slim electrode cozies up to single neurons
A better brain implant: Slim electrode cozies up to single neurons. The main problem that neurons have with electrodes is that they make terrible neighbors. […]
Continue reading »Neurons made from stem cells drive brain activity after transplantation in laboratory model. Sanford-Burnham researchers convince transplanted stem cell-derived neurons to direct cognitive function—getting us […]
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Newborn neurons, even in the adult aging brain, are critical for memory
Newborn neurons, even in the adult aging brain, are critical for memory. Newly generated neurons in the adult hippocampus are critical for memory retrieval, according […]
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Brain protein mutation linked to autism
Brain protein mutation linked to autism. Researchers said they have discovered a genetic mutation in people with autism that cuts communication between brain cells to […]
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