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27 Nov 2023

Change In Climate May Start Impacting Brain Functioning In Future: Study

Study reveals that climate change events may change brain structure, function, and overall health, while calling for more research to evaluate how this may explain changes in well-being and behaviour.

07 Sep 2023

Study Claims Exciting The Brain Might Be Key To Boosting Mathematics Learning

Researchers found that electrical noise stimulation over the frontal part of the brain improved the mathematical ability of people whose brain was less excited.

30 Jul 2023

Low Fibre Intake During Pregnancy May Delay Infant’s Brain Development: Study

The study found that neurodevelopmental delays correlated with the amount of dietary fibre expectant mothers did.

Social isolation

14 Jul 2023

Social Isolation Linked With Lower Brain Volume: Study

The study reveals people with the lowest amount of social contact had overall brain volume that was significantly lower than those with the most social contact.

28 Jun 2023

Poverty Negatively Affects Structural Wiring In Children's Brains: Study

The study reveals children who grow up in poverty have a higher risk of obesity and score lower on tests of cognitive function than their peers in higher income neighborhoods and households.

03 Apr 2023

Dieting: Brain Function Changes During A Diet, Claims Study

The study reveals that the neuronal pathways that stimulate AgRP neurons send increased signals during a diet.

Omega 3 fatty acids

06 Oct 2022

Can omega-3 fatty acid consumption in midlife benefit your brain?

According to an exploratory study, those who consume more foods high in omega-3 fatty acids in midlife may have higher cognitive abilities and even better brain structure than those who consume less of these foods. The research is published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, on October 5, 2022, online. Fish including salmon, sardines, lake trout, and albacore tuna contain omega-3 fatty acids. They can also be found in supplements or foodstuffs that have been fatty acid-fortified.

30 Sep 2022

This is what happens in BRAIN when it becomes too hot

Living species, whether fish or humans, tend to perform worse as the temperature rises. This is something that many people have certainly experienced on a very hot summer day. But what occurs inside the body when the temperature rises too high?

13 Mar 2022

Justin's wife Hailey ‘now fine’ after being hospitalised for brain blood clot

American supermodel Hailey Bieber recently got briefly hospitalized and was treated for a blood clot after experiencing symptoms similar to that of a stroke.

09 May 2021

How do proteins affect processing of information in brain: Study

Several billion nerve cells communicate with each other in the body so that humans and other living beings can perceive and react to their environment. Cross-linking mass spectrometry helps identify the interaction sites of the proteins.

28 Mar 2021

Men and Women brains are different, find out how

Women's brains are about 11 per cent smaller than men's, in proportion to their body size. Smaller brains allow certain features.

29 Nov 2020

Serotonin promotes patience in parts of brain, reveal scientists

Recently, a study conducted by scientists on mice revealed to them the action of serotonin in individually promoting patience in the specific areas of the brain. Researchers in Japan found that the mice became more patient in waiting for food when the hormone was artificially triggered in them during the lab experiment. "Serotonin is one of the most famous neuromodulators of behavior, helping to regulate mood, sleep-wake cycles and appetite," the author said.

10 Oct 2020

Research reveals how brain helps us navigate social differences

In the study, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 39 pairs of participants had a conversation with each other while wearing headsets that tracked brain activity. Researchers found that among pairs of people who had very different socioeconomic backgrounds - calculated according to education level and family income - there was a higher level of activity in an area of the frontal lobe called the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. In a questionnaire following their task, participants paired with people of different backgrounds reported a slightly higher level of anxiety and effort during their conversation than those in similar-background pairs.

01 Sep 2020

Brain protein linked to seizures, abnormal social behaviours, say researchers

The study was published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The researchers focused on the area of the brain called hippocampus, which plays an important role in learning and social interactions; and synapses, which are specialized contacts between neurons. "We found the changes in the E/I balance are regulated by astrocytes in the developing brain through the ephrin protein," said Iryna Ethell, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UCR School of Medicine who led the mouse study.

01 Sep 2020

Research shows how brain flexibility emerges in infants

Publishing their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers show that brain regions with high neural flexibility appear consistent with the core brain regions that support cognitive flexibility processing in adults, whereas brain regions governing basic brain functions, such as motor skills, exhibit lower neural flexibility in adults, demonstrating the emergence of functionally flexible brains during early infancy. The research found that neural flexibility increased with age across the whole brain, and specifically in brain regions that control movement, potentially enabling infants to learn new motor skills.

09 Aug 2020

Bodyweight has alarming impact on brain function, reveals study

The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer`s Disease. One of the largest studies linking obesity with brain dysfunction, scientists analysed over 35,000 functional neuroimaging scans using single-photon emission computerised tomography (SPECT) from more than 17,000 individuals to measure blood flow and brain activity.

28 Feb 2020

Scientists show how brain distinguishes lyrics from music

Albouy and his team found that degradation of temporal information impaired speech recognition but not melody recognition. On the other hand, the perception of melody decreased only with spectral degradation of the song.

15 Dec 2019

People who play drums have different brain function: Study

Another finding is that their areas of the motor brain are more efficiently organised. The findings of the study were published in the journal Brain and Behavior. The research was carried out by Dr Lara Schlaffke from the Bergmannsheil university clinic in Bochum and Dr Sebastian Ocklenburg, Associate Professor from the biopsychology research unit at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum.

29 Aug 2019

Tiny robotic thread can slip through brain's blood vessels

The procedure is physically taxing, requiring surgeons who must be specifically trained in the task

06 Aug 2019

Being socially active linked to lower dementia risk

For the analysis, the research team focused on the relationships between social contact at age 50, 60 and 70, and subsequent incidence of dementia, and whether social contact was linked to cognitive decline, after accounting for other factors such as education, employment, marital status and socioeconomic status.

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