Monthly Archives: Novembre 2019
The bilateral claustrum remain active during activities involving social punishment
Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, has conducted meta-analysis of 17 articles to find out which areas of the brain...
Older women exposed to higher levels of air pollution experience greater memory decline and...
Women in their 70s and 80s who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution experienced greater declines in memory and more Alzheimer’s-like brain...
Designer babies : The ability to select specific traits brought about by multiple genes...
There have been concerns about the idea of “designer babies” for almost as long as in vitro fertilization and technology to screen embryos for...
Extra DNA is critical for maintaining cancer-causing gene activation and supporting the cancer cell’s...
One of the ways a cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a cancer cell is by copying itself...
New hyper-realistic masks are so authentic that people believe they are real faces
Some silicone masks are now so realistic they can easily be mistaken for real faces, new research suggests.
Hyper-realistic masks are made from flexible materials...
Researchers have discovered a pair of drugs that work together to kill cancer cells
Researchers have devised a new plan of attack against a group of deadly childhood brain cancers collectively called diffuse midline gliomas (DMG), including diffuse...
Inflammation drives the progression of neurodegenerative brain diseases
Inflammation drives the progression of neurodegenerative brain diseases and plays a major role in the accumulation of tau proteins within neurons.
An international research...
Serial dependence : systemic bias towards recent past experience
When we pass through an art gallery, what determines our idea of beauty?
A University of Sydney study of how people rate the aesthetics...
Children exposed to virtual interactive characters in educational games learned more quickly
U.S. children lag behind their international peers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills, which has led to calls for an integrated math...
Cannabis doesn’t helps patients with opioid use disorder to stop using opioids
There has been interest in cannabis being used as a replacement drug for people with opioid use disorder, but research at McMaster University has...
Discouraging words from a robot can hinder a person’s ability to play a game
Trash talking has a long and colorful history of flustering game opponents, and now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that discouraging words...
Prosopagnosia involves an entire network – not just one area of the brain
People with prosopagnosia, or “face blindness,” have trouble recognizing faces — even those of close friends and family members.
It often causes serious social...
Memories learned within a distorted coordinated system are also distorted when recalled later
In order to remember where important events happened, or how to get from A to B, our brains form mental “maps” of our environment....
Yoga improve chronic lower back pain and sleep
Yoga and physical therapy (PT) are effective approaches to treating co-occurring sleep disturbance and back pain while reducing the need for medication, according to...
Researchers reveals there is no link between memory decline and statin use in older...
Findings from more than 1,000 elderly individuals assessed over six years have revealed no links between statin medication and cognitive decline, such as memory...
