Brain And Consciousness Research Archives Page 3

Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts (6/6/2008)

Training can increase fluid intelligence, once thought to be fixed at birth ...> Full Article

New research explores role of serotonin in decision-making behaviour (6/6/2008)

Findings provide insight into clinical disorders characterised by low serotonin level, such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and severe anxiety ...> Full Article

Does everyone really want to be a macho man? (6/5/2008)

Researcher finds varying attitudes toward masculinity in Mexican-American men ...> Full Article

Look Before You Leap: New Study Examines Self-Control (6/3/2008)

Reckless decision-making can lead to dire consequences when it comes to food, credit cards, or savings. What's the key to making good decisions? ...> Full Article

Long-Term Cannabis Users May Have Structural Brain Abnormalities (6/3/2008)

Long-term, heavy cannabis use may be associated with structural abnormalities in areas of the brain known as the hippocampus and amygdala ...> Full Article

Knowing looks: Using gaze aversion to tell when children are learning (6/3/2008)

People use eye contact in a variety of ways every minute of every day but how often do you find yourself staring into space with concentrating on an issue or problem? Psychologists now know that people who are carrying out a complex task tend to look away from anyone else who is nearby. They refer to it as 'gaze aversion'. ...> Full Article

Bikini-Clad Women Make Men Impatient (6/2/2008)

Images of sexy women tend to whet men's sexual appetite. But stimulating new research says there's more than meets the eye ...> Full Article

A Computer That Can 'Read' Your Mind (6/2/2008)

Research team's work with brain scans and computational modeling an important breakthrough in understanding the brain and developing new computational tools ...> Full Article

It's Okay to Keep Those Feelings Inside, New Study Suggests (6/2/2008)

Findings focus on collective traumas like school shootings or terrorist attacks ...> Full Article

New form of ECT is as effective as older types but without cognitive side effects (6/1/2008)

scientists report that a new form of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is just as effective as older forms in treating depression but without any of the cognitive side effects ...> Full Article

Concord Grape Juice May Help Improve Memory Function (6/1/2008)

Researcher suggests that drinking Concord grape juice may help older adults with early memory decline improve their memory function. ...> Full Article

Amazonian indigenous culture demonstrates a universal mapping of number onto space (6/1/2008)

The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics is universal, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The findings illuminate both the nature and the limits of the human predisposition to measurement, a foundation for science, engineering, and much of our modern culture. ...> Full Article

Poor spellers with good phonetic skills are more often right-handed (6/1/2008)

To here but not to sea: Spelling difficulties and handedness explored ...> Full Article

Computer model reveals how brain represents meaning (6/1/2008)

Predicts brain activation patterns for thousands of concrete nouns ...> Full Article

When your memories can no longer be trusted (5/31/2008)

The experience of false memories, known as confabulation, appears centered in the inferior medial prefrontal cortex ...> Full Article

I do not see it, but my brain knows what it means (5/31/2008)

Disorder that affects perception of things on a persons left side is quite strange. ...> Full Article

Scientists Produce The First Smell Map (5/31/2008)

Smells can be mapped and the relative distance between various odors determined ...> Full Article

Powerful emotions affect how voters seek political information (5/30/2008)

Angry and anxious voters tend to tune into the presidential race but their strong emotions might actually distract them from paying attention to the facts. ...> Full Article

Trauma of 9/11 may have changed brains (5/30/2008)

Healthy adults who were close to the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have less gray matter in key emotion centers of their brains compared with people who were more than 200 miles away ...> Full Article

How fairness is wired in the brain (5/29/2008)

Researchers have discovered that reason struggles with emotion to find equitable solutions, and have pinpointed the region of the brain where this takes place ...> Full Article

Report highlights impact of future brain drugs on society (5/28/2008)

New report states that an increasing number and variety of psychoactive drugs - drugs that act on the brain - will emerge over the next few decades. ...> Full Article

Video games can make us creative if spark is right (5/27/2008)

Video games that energize players and induce a positive mood could also enhance creativity ...> Full Article

High-school girls who consider themselves attractive are more likely to be targets for bullying (5/26/2008)

It turns out your mother was right: they are just jealous. ...> Full Article

Incense is psychoactive: Scientists identify the biology behind the ceremony (5/25/2008)

New study shows how and why molecules released from burning incense in religious ceremonies alleviate anxiety and depression ...> Full Article

Brain's 'trust machinery' identified (5/24/2008)

The brain centers triggered by a betrayal of trust have been identified by researchers, who found they could suppress such triggering and maintain trust by administering the brain chemical oxytocin. The researchers said their findings not only offer basic insights into the neural machinery underlying trust; the results may also help in understanding the neural basis of social disorders such as phobias and autism. ...> Full Article

Rules of the game: the unwritten rules of the bar pick-up (5/23/2008)

How is a pick-up done in a bar? What strategies for rejection and sexual come-ons do men and women use? ...> Full Article

Modeling how we see natural scenes (5/22/2008)

Sophisticated mathematical modeling methods and a "CatCam" that captures feline-centric video of a forest are two elements of a new effort to explain how the brain's visual circuitry processes real scenes. The new model of the neural responses of a major visual-processing brain region promises to significantly advance understanding of vision ...> Full Article

Scientists Discover a Molecular Scaffold That Guides Connections Between Brain Cells (5/21/2008)

Non-signaling glial cells can direct synapse formation in the forging of neural networks ...> Full Article

With Age Comes a Sense of Peace and Calm, Population Research Center Study Shows (5/20/2008)

Aging brings a sense of peace and calm ...> Full Article

Women want bargains but men prefer brand names (5/19/2008)

Women are better bargain hunters than men, with male shoppers seeking known brand names when deciding which store to go to ...> Full Article