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Struggling to Learn a New Language? Blame It on Your Stable Brain

Aug. 30, 2021 — A study in patients with epilepsy is helping researchers understand how the brain manages the task of learning a new language while retaining our mother tongue. The study sheds light on the age-old ...

Beyond Dopamine: New Reward Circuitry Discovered

Sep. 1, 2021 — The key to overcoming addictions and psychiatric disorders lives deep inside the netherworld of our brains and the circuitry that causes us to feel good. Just like space, this region of the brain ...

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How a Racing Heart May Alter Decision-Making Brain Circuits

Aug. 30, 2021 — In an effort to understand how the internal state of the body influences the brain's decision-making processes, scientists analyzed the data from a previous study ...

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Brain Refreshing: Why the Dreaming Phase Matters

Aug. 25, 2021 — Researchers have found that blood flow in the brain capillaries, which is important for oxygen/nutrient delivery and waste removal, was increased during rapid eye movement ...

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New AI Algorithm to Improve Brain Stimulation Devices to Treat Disease

Sep. 3, 2021 — For millions of people with epilepsy and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, electrical stimulation of the brain already is widening treatment possibilities. In the future, electrical ...

Predicting Possible Alzheimer’s With Nearly 100 Percent Accuracy

Sep. 3, 2021 — Researchers have developed a deep learning-based method that can predict the possible onset of Alzheimer's disease from brain images with an accuracy of over 99 percent. The method was developed ...

Epilepsy Brain Implant Does Not Transform Patients’ Sense of Self or Personality but Offers Them New Insights Into Illness, Study Shows

Sep. 2, 2021 — A next-generation brain implant currently in clinical use for treating refractory epilepsy -- to help prevent symptoms including seizures -- does not ...

Having MS Plus Depression May Be Tied to Increased Risk of Early Death

Sep. 1, 2021 — Depression is common in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), and a new study shows that people with both conditions may be more likely to die over the next decade than people with just one or neither ...

Deficits May Remain After 7-Day Recovery from 10 Days of Insufficient Sleep

Sep. 1, 2021 — After 7 days of recovery from a 10-day period of deficient sleep, participants in a small study had recovered their pre-sleep deprivation reaction speed, but had not fully recovered on any other ...

Family of Proteins Offers Promise as Ischemic Stroke Treatment, Preclinical Trial Finds

Sep. 1, 2021 — Boosting a family of naturally occurring proteins that dampens inflammation in the body has been shown to be effective in reducing damage from an ...

Do Genetics Control Who Our Friends Are? It Seems So With Mice

Sep. 1, 2021 — Have you ever met someone you instantly liked, or at other times, someone who you knew immediately that you did not want to be friends with, although you did not know why? Now, a new study suggests ...

Machine Learning Algorithm Revolutionizes How Scientists Study Behavior

Aug. 31, 2021 — B-SOiD is an open source, unsupervised algorithm that can discover and identify behaviors without user ...

Your Sense of Smell May Be the Key to a Balanced Diet

Aug. 26, 2021 — When we smell food, we are more likely to eat -- but new findings suggest eating food also impacts our sense of smell, which could bias what we eat next. Imaging shows that brain's response to odors ...

Study Identifies 579 Genetic Locations Linked to Anti-Social Behavior, Alcohol Use, Opioid Addiction and More

Aug. 26, 2021 — An analysis of data from 1.5 million people has identified 579 locations in the genome associated with a predisposition to different behaviors and ...

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Apologizing to Customers After Product Failures Can Encourage Repurchase, Stave Off Lawsuits

Sep. 7, 2021 — Companies that express remorse in the wake of a product failure are more likely to encourage customers to repurchase from them, according to new ...

Researchers Discover Connection Between Brain’s Opioid System and Eating Behavior

Sep. 2, 2021 — Brain regulation of feeding behavior traits has remained incompletely understood. In a new study, researchers discovered a connection between the function of the opioid system and food craving ...

New Brain Model Provides Patient-Specific Alzheimer’s Insights, Predictions of Cognitive Decline

Sep. 1, 2021 — A study has established a new resource for exploring and understanding Alzheimer's disease (AD) on an individualized ...

At Least 80% of Opioid Overdoses Aren’t Fatal, but How Do They Affect the Brain?

Aug. 30, 2021 — Scientists still know little about how opioid overdoses affect the brain and cognition. Researchers found that, while evidence exists to support a link between overdose, cognitive impairment and ...

Integrated Treatment for Depression and Heart Failure Improves Quality of Life and Mood

Aug. 30, 2021 — Results suggest that simple measures, such as depression care administered by phone, can make a big difference for patients recovering from heart ...

Altered Functional Brain Network Connectivity Associated With Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress in COVID-19 Survivors, Study Shows

Aug. 26, 2021 — COVID-19 survivors report significantly higher symptoms of post-traumatic stress, and these symptoms are associated with changes to the brain's connectivity, according to a new ...