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UCLA study finds that searching the Internet increases brain function
UCLA scientists have found that for computer-savvy middle-aged and older adults, searching the Internet triggers key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning. The findings demonstrate that Web search activity may help stimulate and possibly improve brain...
Duke team explains a longtime visual puzzler in new way
A team of neuroscientists at Duke University Medical Center has suggested an entirely new way to explain a puzzling visual phenomenon called the flash-lag effect.
Facebook is 'social glue' for university freshers
The first few weeks at university can be a difficult time for freshers as they attempt to settle in to their new academic and social life.
Looking through the broken mirror
Researchers at The University of Nottingham are hoping to learn more about the causes of autism and Asperger's Syndrome, by putting a controversial theory to the test.
Critical genetic link found between human taste differences and nicotine dependence
Could an aversion to bitter substances or an overall heightened sense of taste help protect some people from becoming addicted to nicotine? That's what researchers at UVA have found using...
Methamphetamine enters brain quickly and lingers
Using positron emission tomography (PET) to track tracer doses of methamphetamine in humans' brains, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory find that the addictive and...
M.I.N.D. Institute researchers find important clue to learning deficit in children with autism
A study by researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute has discovered an important clue to why children with autism spectrum disorders have trouble imitating others: They spend less time...
Americans and the economy: Angry feelings, fear exceeds terrorism risk
In the first three days of the country's economic meltdown that began Sept. 29, 81 percent of Americans surveyed in a national poll agreed or strongly agreed that the financial...
Transparency in politics can lead to greater corruption
Why are some countries more prone to political corruption? Viviana Stechina from Uppsala University, Sweden, has investigated why corruption among the political elite was more extensive in Argentina than...
Gene hunt in dyslexia
Scool? Skuul? Or perhaps shcool? The beginning is a delicate time – especially in reading and writing. Twisted letters or other beginner´s mistakes disappear quite fast as learning progresses. Nevertheless...
A new hand -- and signs of sensory recovery
Four months after a successful hand transplant -- 35 years after
amputation in an industrial accident at age 19 -- a 54-year-old
man's emerging sense of touch is registered in...
Despite 'peacenik' reputation, bonobos hunt and eat other primates too
Unlike the male-dominated societies of their chimpanzee relatives, bonobo society—in which females enjoy a higher social status than males—has a "make-love-not-war" kind of image. While chimpanzee males frequently band together to hunt and kill monkeys, the more peaceful bonobos were...
What do you know? Not as much as you think
We've all met know-it-alls—people who think they know more than they actually do. If they're talking about products, like wine or motorcycles, they might actually know as much as they...
Celebrity adoption of charitable causes oversold
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (October 13, 2008) Celebrities do have the ability to focus awareness on charitable and political causes but their power to move...
Landmark study links sleep, memory problems in elderly African-Americans
A landmark study led by North Carolina State University researchers shows that African-American seniors who have trouble falling asleep are at higher risk of having memory problems – raising the...
Astrocytes and synaptic plasticity
By mopping up excess neurotrophic factor from neuronal synapses, astrocytes may finely tune synaptic transmission to affect processes such as learning and memory, say Bergami et al.
Does it matter if black plus white equals black or multiracial?
EVANSTON, Ill. --- "Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks.
Pregnancy not turning minds to mush: Study
Pregnancy and motherhood may make us all go a little gooey, but it's not turning mums' brains into mush, according to mental health researchers at The Australian National University.
Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow
Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part...
US culture derails girl math whizzes
A culture of neglect and, at some age levels, outright social ostracism, is derailing a generation of students, especially girls, deemed the very best in mathematics, according to a new...
Lost in America: Top math talent
Do females intrinsically have less ability than males to excel in mathematics at the very highest level? Conventional wisdom seems to say yes. Harvard University president Lawrence Summers also...
Risk and reward compete in brain
That familiar pull between the promise of victory and the dread of defeat – whether in money, love or sport – is rooted in the brain's architecture, according to a...
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