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How Repeated Aggression Triggers Social Aversion in Mice
January 18, 2013 — One of the mechanisms involved in the onset of stress-induced depression has been highlighted in mice. Scientists have determined the role of the corticosterone (stress hormone) receptor, in the ... > full story -
How the Brain Copes With Multi Tasking Alters With Age
January 17, 2013 — The pattern of blood flow in the prefrontal cortex in the brains alters with age during multi-tasking, finds a new study. Increased blood volume, measured using oxygenated haemoglobin (Oxy-Hb) ... > full story -
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Understanding Personality for Decision-Making, Longevity, and Mental Health
January 17, 2013 — Extraversion does not just explain differences between how people act at social events. How extraverted you are may influence how the brain makes choices -- specifically whether you choose an ... > full story -
Potential to Prevent, Reverse Disabilities in Children Born Prematurely, Study Suggests
January 17, 2013 — Researchers report for the first time that low blood and oxygen flow to the developing brain does not, as previously thought, cause an irreversible loss of brain cells, but rather disrupts the cells' ... > full story -
Adolescent Stress Linked to Severe Adult Mental Illness, Mouse Study Suggests
January 17, 2013 — Working with mice, researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence -- a critical time for brain development -- and genetic changes that, in young ... > full story -
Is Athleticism Linked to Brain Size? Exercise-Loving Mice Have Larger Midbrains
January 17, 2013 — Is athleticism linked to brain size? Researchers performed laboratory experiments on house mice and found that mice that have been bred for dozens of generations to be more exercise-loving have ... > full story -
People With Low Risk for Cocaine Dependence Have Differently Shaped Brain to Those With Addiction
January 17, 2013 — People who take cocaine over many years without becoming addicted have a brain structure which is significantly different from those individuals who developed cocaine-dependence, researchers have ... > full story -
Implicit Race Bias Increases the Differences in the Neural Representations of Black and White Faces
January 17, 2013 — Racial stereotypes have been shown to have subtle and unintended consequences on how we treat members of different race groups. According to new research race bias also increases differences in the ... > full story -
Slower Growth of Preterm Infants Linked to Altered Brain Development
January 16, 2013 — Preterm infants who grow more slowly as they approached what would have been their due dates also have slower development in an area of the brain called the cerebral cortex, report ... > full story -
Iron Chelation Drug Used to Treat Rare, Devastating Neurodegenerative Disease in Children
January 16, 2013 — A promising pilot study of deferiprone for the treatment of the neurodegenerative disorder, PKAN, leads to an international trial with potential implications for Parkinson’s and other ... > full story
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