Stress in pregnancy may influence baby’s brain development
A team from the University of Edinburgh found that infants’ brains may be shaped by levels of stress their mother experiences during pregnancy....
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AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts...
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed artificial intelligence models that help them better understand the brain computations that underlie thoughts....
read moreMid-life high blood pressure linked to increased brain damage later...
A new study published in European Heart Journal found a strong association between diastolic blood pressure (the blood pressure between heart beats) before age 50 and brain damage in later life (elderly). This is true even if the diastolic...
read moreSleep loss may disrupt the brain’s ability to “unlearn” fear...
A new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging has found that getting less sleep than normal can impair the brain’s capacity to regulate fear. This may explain why frequent sleep disturbances make people more...
read moreIncreasing sleep after trauma may help improve memory and learning...
A new study from Washington State University has found that increasing the amount of time spent asleep immediately after a traumatic experience may easy any negative consequences. The research builds a case for sleep therapeutics following trauma—especially for military...
read moreNeuroprotective treatment on mice with TBI reversed cognitive impairment...
Researchers from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have found that it may be possible to halt or slow neurodegeneration in TBI survivors. The scientists were able to pharmacologically reverse cognitive impairment in animal models....
read moreHuman born with brains ‘prewired’ for words
A team of researchers from Ohio State University reports that humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the state at birth for people to learn...
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