Photographic Memory Real: A Snapshot of Photographic Memory
Is having a photographic memory real? A photographic memory is usually used to describe when someone has the stunning ability to recall visual information in […]
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Dysthymia: Persistent Depressive Disorder- What is it and Symptoms
We’ve all been “there”, where we find ourselves more down than usual, we don’t feel like doing anything and have a constant feeling of apathy. […]
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Brain Gym: 16 Activities That Will Help Your Brain Stay Younger
Brain Gym for a healthy mind. A few years ago, we started to learn about the importance of training our brains. Today we know that […]
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Brain based learning: What is it and how to apply it
What is brain based learning, and why it matters. Brain bases learning is a new perspective in teaching and learning that is based on using technology and knowledge of the […]
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Anterograde Amnesia: Familiar faces become strangers
Anterograde Amnesia: Imagine yourself wandering up and down the streets not finding back home. Well, the solution is simple, looking for a taxi or ask […]
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The Effects of Sugar on the Brain: Everything you need to know
We are always hearing about how sugar is bad for us, but how does it affect us? How does sugar affect our brains? In this […]
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Hypersomnia: What it is, and how it impacts your health
We often hear about how people can’t seem to fall asleep, thus leading to people pulling all-nighters. In reality most are trying to go to […]
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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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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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Human Brain Project: What is it and how it’s a research innovation
Assembly of The Human Brain Project has a goal to unravel what lies within the intricately woven network that still remains a secret. Humans are […]
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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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What is Your Basal Ganglia? How it Works for You
What is your basal ganglia? This tiny part of the brain is the mastermind behind all your daily activities. For all the work that it does […]
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What is Neurogenesis?: Regrowing Your Brain
“…I have experience recovering from a stroke. At the age of seven I underwent a stroke that almost took my life and paralyzed me on […]
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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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Neurologist undergoes brain surgery for research
Neurologist takes self-experimentation to the extreme by installing implants in his own brain for data collection – MIT Technology Review Phil Kennedy, a neurologist dedicated […]
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Help dyslexic children with the new CogniFit Professional tool.
Help dyslexic children with the new CogniFit Professional tool. Peer-reviewed research has shown that cognitive training with CogniFit boosts reading skills in dyslexic students. You can access […]
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Interview of CogniFit’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Evelyn Shatil, on Financial Sense.
Interview of CogniFit’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Evelyn Shatil, on Financial Sense. You can listen to her analysis of brain training here (beginning approximately 28 minutes […]
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How seeing changes your brain
How seeing changes your brain. Your eyes aren’t just advanced visual systems capturing images of what’s around you. New research published in the Journal of […]
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Red brain, blue brain: republicans and democrats process risk differently
Red brain, blue brain: republicans and democrats process risk differently, research finds. A team of political scientists and neuroscientists has shown that liberals and conservatives […]
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Neuroeconomics: how brain science matters to business
Neuroeconomics: how brain science matters to business. At first glance, a neuroscientist and a business school might seem like an odd fit. But the fact […]
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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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The neuro-benefits of meditation
The neuro-benefits of meditation. Studies have shown that regular meditation promotes mindfulness (sustained observing awareness), whose benefits include decreased stress-related cortisol, insomnia, symptoms of autoimmune […]
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How new mothers process stress
How new mothers process stress. Postpartum women process stress differently from females who have not recently given birth. This is according to new research published […]
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Why your brain is a sensory smoothie
Why your brain is a sensory smoothie. Neuroscientists used to think of the brain as a Swiss Army knife with different regions dedicated exclusively to […]
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Electrical impulses in the brain encode protocols for behaviors
Electrical impulses in the brain encode protocols for behaviors. Neuroscientists have long been perplexed by how our brains encode thoughts, including memory loss and awareness, […]
Continue reading »A 3-D light switch for the brain. A new tool for neuroscience delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller […]
Continue reading »CogniFit Launches Its New Brain Fitness iPad App
We have the pleasure to announce today the release of our newly developed brain fitness iPad app. Specifically designed for the iPad, you will find […]
Continue reading »Drinking decreases number of new brain cells. You don’t have to be a heavy drinker to hurt your brain. Even moderate amounts of alcohol can […]
Continue reading »Goals, Motivation And The Brain
The Greek philosopher Democritus (460-370 B.C.E.) might have been the first to hypothesize that the two fundamental human motives are to approach rewards and avoid […]
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