Brain And Consciousness Research Archives Page 1

Human brain appears 'hard-wired' for hierarchy (4/26/2008)

Scans hint at why it can be unhealthy even at the top ...> Full Article

Researcher Studies Neurofeedback to 'Retrain' Brainwaves in Children with Autism (4/26/2008)

Researcher is using video games to see if the brainwaves of children with autism can be 'retrained' to improve focus and concentration ...> Full Article

Praise equals money? (4/26/2008)

A new neural evidence suggests that the brain's reward system works similarly for both praise and money ...> Full Article

Being distracted can make you more susceptible to ads (4/25/2008)

Can Evaluative Conditioning Change Attitudes toward Mature Brands? ...> Full Article

High anxiety? Research looks to brain & genes to improve treatment (4/25/2008)

The study showed that THC reduces the response to threat in a brain region called the amygdala ...> Full Article

Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system (4/25/2008)

Researchers provide new information about the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs ...> Full Article

Rehab Therapy Causes Increase in Gray Matter (4/24/2008)

A new rehabilitation therapy produces changes in the structure of the brain, the first evidence of actual brain remodeling resulting from a rehabilitation therapy. ...> Full Article

Certain anesthesia mimics near-natural napping (4/24/2008)

Researchers have discovered sleep patterns in a type of anesthesia that are the closest ever to a natural, non-groggy snooze. ...> Full Article

Psychologists Demonstrate Simplicity of Working Memory (4/24/2008)

Study could help with ADD and other attention difficulties ...> Full Article

Brain reacts to fairness as it does to money and chocolate, study shows (4/23/2008)

The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate ...> Full Article

Data Transfer In The Brain: Newfound Mechanism Enables Reliable Transmission Of Neuronal Information (4/23/2008)

The receptors of neurotransmitters move very rapidly. This mobility plays an essential, and hitherto unsuspected, role in the passage of nerve impulses from one neuron to another, thus controlling the reliability of data transfer. ...> Full Article

Male and female brains are not so different, fruit flies' sex acts tell us (4/23/2008)

While males and females might sometimes act as though they come from different planets, a new study in flies suggests they are both equipped with a largely unisex brain. ...> Full Article

What's not to like? Why fondness makes us poor judges, but dislike is spot-on (4/22/2008)

When someone likes something, they assume others will like it as well. ...> Full Article

More clues to midlife dementia that erases personality (4/22/2008)

New clues have been uncovered about a mystifying, hidden dementia that robs its victims of empathy and social skills, and leads to an early death. ...> Full Article

Scientists discover neural circuits for saccadic modulation of visual perception (4/22/2008)

Scientists trying to unravel mysteries of visual perception ...> Full Article

Men More Likely to Have Problems with Memory and Thinking Skills (4/21/2008)

When it comes to remembering things, new research shows men are more likely than women to have mild cognitive impairment, the transition stage before dementia ...> Full Article

Intelligence and rhythmic accuracy go hand in hand (4/21/2008)

People who score high on intelligence tests are also good at keeping time ...> Full Article

Study finds teasing may be more damaging than once thought (4/20/2008)

Children are more likely to interpret teasing -- even teasing intended to be harmless -- as negative rather than positive ...> Full Article

Would you steal a buck? How about a can of soda? (4/20/2008)

Researcher probes how people make decisions in his new book ...> Full Article

Disturbances in Brain Circuitry Linked to Chronic Exposure to Solvents (4/19/2008)

Chronic occupational exposure to organic solvents, found in materials such as paints, printing and dry cleaning agents, is widespread all over the world, and is thought to damage the central nervous system ...> Full Article

Locating a 'Free Choice' Brain Circuit (4/19/2008)

Scientists searching for the circuitry that activates your ability to execute a decision ...> Full Article

How Big Is Your Brain? Its Size May Protect You from Memory Loss (4/18/2008)

From autopsies, researchers have long known that some people die with sharp minds and perfect memories, but their brains riddled with the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease. New research shows that those people have a larger part of the brain called the hippocampus ...> Full Article

New research shows slight of hand is not so slight (4/18/2008)

Typing on a keyboard or scribbling on paper may be similar activities, but there is a significant difference in how the body moves, according to new motor development research. ...> Full Article

Decoupling through Synchrony (4/17/2008)

In the brain, as in sports, sex, and life, timing--and teamwork--are everything. Such is the message of a series of studies by researchers that offer insight into the processes by which memories are stored in the brain and that may someday guide the development of new therapies to prevent epileptic seizures. ...> Full Article

Recognising numbers (4/17/2008)

Research is looking at why some people find it difficult to understand mathematics and how this might be related to dyslexia ...> Full Article

Are humans hardwired for fairness? (4/17/2008)

Is fairness simply a ruse, something we adopt only when we secretly see an advantage in it for ourselves? Many psychologists have in recent years moved away from this purely utilitarian view, dismissing it as too simplistic. Recent advances in both cognitive science and neuroscience now allow psychologists to approach this question in some different ways, and they are getting some intriguing results. ...> Full Article

Human Mind Product of Chaotic Evolutionary Path, Psychology Professor Concludes in New Book (4/16/2008)

The human mind, far from being a highly efficient computer, is in fact the product of a bumpy evolutionary path, serving as a marvelous storage facility but operating as a shaky retrieval system ...> Full Article

Too many choices - good or bad - can be mentally exhausting (4/16/2008)

Researchers show that people have less stamina, are less productive when they have more choices ...> Full Article

White Matter Changes in Schizophrenia (4/15/2008)

People recently diagnosed with schizophrenia have abnormalities in a specific area of the brain's white matter ...> Full Article

Unconscious decisions in the brain (4/15/2008)

A team of scientists has unravelled how the brain unconsciously prepares our decisions ...> Full Article