Junk Food Is Wrecking Our Teenagers’ Brains, and Here’s How
A study on adolescent rats suggests that a diet high in fat and sugar impacts memory over time. This research ...
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Study reveals our brains are ‘hardwired’ to learn more from the people we love
Our brains are “programmed” to learn more from people we like – and less from those we don’t like. This ...
Study reveals strongest evidence yet on brain’s ability to compensate for age-related cognitive decline
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet that our brains can compensate for age-related deterioration by recruiting other areas to ...
Scientists identify growth of the brain’s cerebellum as key to the evolution of bird flight
Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons with studies of dinosaur ...
How the brains of healthy older people perceive color
There is a difference between the way the brains of healthy older people perceive color and those of younger adults, ...
High mercury levels attributed to particular cell types in mammalian brains
Exposure to mercury (Hg) is extremely neurotoxic in most chemical forms. Even scientists who study mercury compounds are at risk ...
Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder, study finds
With the help of an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered which types of sentences are most likely to ...
The truth about the differences between male and female brains
This will also interest you(ON VIDEO) Observation of a human brain Institute of Human Anatomy uses human cadavers as instruments ...
Researchers discover potential source of stem cells in injured patients’ brains
Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and LMU have discovered that in case of brain damage, specific cells in the brain become ...
When does the brain grow? Research shows that the brains of mice and primates mature at the same rate
An Argonne study found that short-lived mice and longer-lived primates develop brain synapses at exactly the same time, challenging assumptions ...
