Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing on a keyboard
Students undergo an EEG while handwriting and typing. Credit: NTNU As digital devices gradually replace pen and paper, taking notes ...
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Cognitive behavioral therapy changes brain activity in anxious children, study finds
Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found overactivation of many brain regions, including ...
Thinning of the brain region may signal dementia risk 5 to 10 years before symptoms
Strengths of significant association (regression t-values) for gray matter thickness in Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia compared to cognitively healthy controls ...
The cutest environmentalists; a strange stellar object; vitamins good for the brain
Close-up of a sea otter taken in Morro Bay, California in 2016. Credit: Marshal Hedin of San Diego, CC BY-SA ...
3D bioprinting explains why curvature of blood vessels may promote brain cancer metastasis
Creation of an in vitro cerebrovascular model using 3D bioprinting technology. Credit: POSTECH Recent research suggests that the winding paths ...
New study finds that short, toxic RNAs kill brain cells and may enable the development of Alzheimer’s disease
A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. The nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue) are highlighted. Note that this is ...
Cannabis activates specific hunger neurons in the brain
Exposure to cannabis vapor increases meal frequency. (A) Illustrates the vapor chamber apparatus used in the following studies. (B), (VS), ...
Brain structure predicts treatment response to antidepressants and placebos, study finds
Neuroanatomical models across dimensions. False discovery rate (FDR)-corrected voxel-wise comparison of gray matter volume differences in dimension 1 (top row) ...
Scientists show how the surface learning mechanism used by the brain can compete with deep learning
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Neural network learning techniques come from brain dynamics. However, these two scenarios, brain learning and deep ...
Study reveals function of little-understood synapse in the brain
Credit: CC0 Public domain New research from Oregon Health and Science University reveals for the first time the function of ...
