The color yellow boosts concentration and alertness
The color yellow has been shown to boost concentration and alertness? It’s also a color that’s often associated with happiness....
read moreSpatial attention and object-based attention use similar mechanisms...
New research says that spatial attention and object-based attention are surprisingly similar and actually use similar mechanisms and related brain regions. Both are governed by the prefrontal cortex, and in object-based attention, the inferior frontal junction (which is in...
read moreChildhood abuse increases odds of developing ADHD by sevenfold...
A new report indicates that of more than 13,000 adults surveyed, those who reported being physically abused before age 18 had seven times the odds of having ADD/ADHD....
read morePregnancy, acetaminophen and ADHD
New research suggest that pregnant women who take acetaminophen during pregnancy are likely at increased risk for their child developing ADHD....
read moreMRI technique shows ADHD patients have low iron in brain
A postdoctoral research fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina used magnetic field correlation (MFC) imaging to show that of 22 kids with ADHD, the 12 that had never been on medication had significantly lower MFC than the...
read moreSensitivity to pain linked to amount of gray matter in brain
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center discovered that people with the highest pain intensity rating have less gray matter in the brain regions associated with internal thoughts and attention control....
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