CURRENT ARTICLES & VIDEOS ON THE NEUROSCIENCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Recent studies have shown that moving our body in certain ways can improve our ability to think.
(Scientific American Podcast 6/1/09)
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Forget about erasing bad memories. Researchers have located the receptor that enables our brain to override or "unlearn" traumatic past experiences.
(SEED Magazine 4/1/09)
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Brain scans show how the brain's organization changes from childhood to adulthood.
(Video on LIVE SCIENCE)
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A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory.
The findings support a neurobiological hypothesis for why impoverished children consistently fare worse than their middle-class counterparts in school, and eventually in life.
(WiredMag 3/30/09)
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Abuse in early childhood permanently alters how the brain reacts to stress, a Canadian study suggests. Analysis of brain tissue from adults who had committed suicide found key genetic changes in those who had suffered abuse as a child. It affects the production of a receptor known to be involved in stress responses. (BBC2/23/09)
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Study in mice suggests that a mother's childhood may affect the brain function of her offspring. Researchers found that mouse moms who were physically active, stimulated and changed their living arrangements often as youngsters gave birth to babies with better memory than those with mothers raised in dull environments.
(SciAm 2/3/09)
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Study gives new insights into the relationship between pain and empathy. Pain-insensitive people probably rely on emotional regions of the brain for empathy.
(SciNews 1/28/09)
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