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Mind & Brain :: Head Lines :: April 26, 2013 :: Email :: Print See Inside Glial activity reveals how sleep deprivation elevates mood By David Levine Image: SHARON DOMINICK iStockphoto Sleep deprivation is a quick and efficient way to treat depression .
Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression
How much does environment influence intelligence? Several years ago University of Virginia Professor Eric Turkheimer demonstrated that growing up in an impoverished and chaotic household suppresses I.Q. – without nurture, innate advantages vanish. What about genes? They matter too. After decades of research most psychologists agree that somewhere between 50% and 80% of intelligence is genetic. After all, numerous studies demonstrate that identical twins raised apart have remarkably similar I.Q.’s.
Virtues of Cognitive Workout: New Research Reveals Neurological Underpinnings of Intelligence | Guest Blog
Emotional Smarts Tied to General IQ
Mind & Brain :: TechMediaNetwork :: January 23, 2013 :: :: Email :: Print The same brain regions that perform cognitive tasks may also provide social intelligence, according to a new study By Tia Ghose and LiveScienceTwentysomethings just want to have fun, or at least remember it that way YanLev/iStockphoto/Thinkstock. Twentysomethings are having a moment. They’re inspiring self-help guides (see Meg Jay’s The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How To Make the Most of Them Now ), hit television shows , Tumblrs -turned- handbooks , and lyrical New Yorker think pieces . What is it about twentysomethings ? Robin Henig asked in the New York Times Magazine not too long ago.
Reminiscence bump explanations: Why we remember young adulthood better than any other age
—Paul Stokes, MD, PhD Almost weekly, research reveals the tremendous neuroplasticity of the human brain . However, most prior studies pointed to the adaptability of the larger, more superficial cerebral cortex . The deeper, primitive ( limbic ) brain was seen as an evolutionary holdover that simply responded to the impulses sent from the higher cortex.
New Finding Calls Into Question Assumptions About Sexuality
More Science :: Features :: December 7, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print It has been said that the eyes are windows to the soul. Research has at least shown that the apertures of our eyes offer a glimpse into the mind
Eye-Opener: Why Do Pupils Dilate in Response to Emotional States?
The Damaging Impact of Abuse on Brain Development
Some 30,000 neuroscientists have converged on the New Orleans convention center, a stone's throw from the French Quarter and overlooking the Mississippi river as it flows into the Gulf. Just as the river always flows downstream, science flows forward toward new understanding and nowhere is it more evident than here. I'm at the annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference, which starts today and ends Wednesday.
Mind & Brain :: Head Lines :: September 24, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print See Inside Eating a raw steak or owning a cat can make you more outgoing By Tori Rodriguez
Common Parasite Linked to Personality Changes
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Mind & Brain :: News :: August 26, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print Subjects trained to sniff pleasant smells while asleep retain the conditioning when they wake up By Mo Costandi and Nature magazine Image: shironosov/iStockphoto From Nature magazine.
How to Learn in Your Sleep
Myths About Sleep Myth One—Missing sleep is okay. Myth Two—Your financial, work or relationship problems keep you from sleeping. Myth Three—You can't influence your brain . Reality About Sleep Reality One—Sleep Deprivation can kill you sooner than you think.
Switch Your Brain Into Sleep Mode: On Demand
Memory in the Brain [Interactive]
Interactive Features | Mind & Brain Visit the places that help you remember--and forget--in Scientific American Mind 's tour of the brainBrain's Drain: Neuroscientists Discover Cranial Cleansing System
Mind & Brain :: News :: August 15, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print Fluids coursing through the nervous system could help clear the brain of toxic detritus that leads to Alzheimer's and Huntington's disorders By Daisy Yuhas A close look at an artery in the brain of a mouse. The green and yellow are cerebrospinal fluid traveling outside of the artery.Premise #1: “The mind is in the body.” I teach a lot of courses and workshops on mind-body science, and Premise #1 is how I start all of them. It's a basic assumption of modern psychology, especially for those who study the brain .
Is Your Mind Separate From Your Body?
In an astonishing new study, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have imaged human and monkey brains and found… well, the image above says it all. It turns out that the pathways in your brain — the connections between neurons — are almost perfectly grid-like. It’s rather weird: If you’ve ever seen a computer ribbon cable — a flat, 2D ribbon of wires stuck together, such as an IDE hard drive cable — the brain is basically just a huge collection of these ribbons, traveling parallel or perpendicular to each other. There are almost zero diagonals, nor single neurons that stray from the neuronal highways. The human brain is just one big grid of neurons — a lot like the streets of Manhattan, minus Broadway, and then projected into three dimensions. This new imagery comes from a souped-up MRI scanner that uses diffusion spectrum imaging to detect the movement of water molecules within axons (the long connections made by neurons).