News articles tagged with 'cortex'
Grey matter in brain's control centre linked to ability to process reward
— 29 Nov 2011 21:40 | HealthThe more grey matter you have in the decision-making, thought-processing part of your brain, the better your ability to evaluate rewards and consequences. That may seem like an obvious…
Demystifying meditation - brain imaging illustrates how meditation reduces pain
— 6 Apr 2011 16:22 | HealthMeditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research published in the April 6 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience…
Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears
— 17 Mar 2011 17:39 | HealthDr Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered…
Learning to see consciously
— 9 Mar 2011 19:44 | HealthOur brains process many more stimuli than we become aware of. Often images enter our brain without being noticed: visual information is being processed, but does not reach consciousness,…
Trouble with the latest dance move? GABA might be to blame
— 4 Mar 2011 15:39 | HealthIf you tend to have trouble picking up the latest dance moves or learning to play a new piano piece, there might be an explanation. A new study published online on March 3rd in Current…
Tobacco smoking impacts teens' brains, UCLA study shows
— 3 Mar 2011 12:56 | HealthTobacco smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S., with more than 400,000 deaths each year attributable to smoking or its consequences. And yet teens…
Neuroscientists find overlooked brain area is an important locus of depression
— 24 Feb 2011 19:59 | HealthA team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and UC San Diego (UCSD) has collected evidence suggesting that a previously overlooked…
Chinks in the brain circuitry make some more vulnerable to anxiety
— 11 Feb 2011 16:54 | HealthWhy do some people fret over the most trivial matters while others remain calm in the face of calamity? Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two different…
MIT: Understanding the autistic mind
— 1 Feb 2011 21:42 | HealthA study from MIT neuroscientists reveals that high-functioning autistic adults appear to have trouble using theory of mind to make moral judgements in certain situations…
Revealing the wiring that allows us to adapt to the unexpected
— 1 Feb 2011 21:18 | HealthWouldn't life be easy if everything happened as we anticipated? In reality, our brains are able to adapt to the unexpected using an inbuilt network that makes predictions about the…