Children who grow up in a bilingual household are quicker at shifting their attention and faster at detecting visual changes than adults who learned a second language later in life.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Afternoon Napping Linked to Better Mental Agility
An afternoon nap may help improve mental agility, a new study suggests. A short afternoon nap was associated with better working memory, verbal fluency, and locational awareness.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Biomarkers in Mother’s Plasma Predict a Type of Autism in Offspring With 100% Accuracy
Using machine learning, researchers have identified patterns of maternal autoantibodies in the blood plasma of pregnant women that were highly associated with autism and the severity of symptoms in offspring.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Street Trees Close to the Home May Reduce the Risk of Depression
A new study reveals living on a street lined with trees may be good for mental health. Researchers found people who lived within 100 meters of trees were less likely to be prescribed antidepressants.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: MRI Helps Unravel the Mysteries of Sleep
MRI technology helps researchers identify specific brain activity during different stages of sleep.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Prenatal BPA Exposure May Contribute to the Male Bias of ASD
Exposure to BPA during the gestational period leads to decreased neural viability and neural density in the hippocampus of male offspring. Additionally, exposure led to the dysregulation of ASD-related genes in the hippocampus. Findings suggest BPA may…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Better Diet and Glucose Uptake in the Brain Lead to Longer Life
Better glucose uptake compensates for age-related motor deterioration and extends lifespan in fruitflies.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Snap-Freezing Reveals a Truer Structure of Brain Connections
Using a snap-freezing method, researchers have been able to reveal the true structure of the connections that join neurons together in the adult brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Measures Brain Volume Differences in People With HIV
Lower white blood cell count associated with HIV infection was linked to decreased volume in the hippocampus and thalamus.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Designer Cytokine Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again
Protein hyper-interleukin-6, a “designer protein” that has to be produced via genetic engineering, enabled a paralyzed mouse to walk again.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Disagreeing Takes up a Lot of Brain Real Estate
When people agree, their brains display a synchrony of activity in sensory areas. When they disagree, may other brain regions associated with cognitive function become active.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Gut Microbes May Antagonize or Assist in Anorexia
Promoting and maintaining a better gut microbial balance may help to protect against symptoms of anorexia in those with the eating disorder.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Mindfulness Can Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing, but It’s Unlikely to Work for Everyone
In most community settings, compared with doing nothing, mindfulness reduced stress, anxiety, depression, and increased wellbeing. However, in some cases, mindfulness may be no better than other practices to reduce anxiety and depression.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Robot Displays a Glimmer of Empathy to a Partner Robot
Researchers have created a robot that can learn to visually predict how its partner will behave. This could help robots get along with other robots and humans more intuitively.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Delves Into Emotional Wellness in the Human Brain
NAA, a compound in the brain, plays a key role in emotional agency and flexibility in healthy people.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Vaping Could Cloud Your Thoughts
Adults and adolescents who use vaping products are more likely to experience problems with concentration, memory, and decision making than their peers who don’t vape or smoke. Those who began vaping before age 14 are more likely to experience “mental f…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Music-Induced Emotions Can Be Predicted From Brain Scans
Based on the activity in the auditory cortex and motor cortex, researchers were able to predict whether a participant was listening to music that was upbeat or sad.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Covering Faces Around Kids Won’t Mask Emotions
Even when a person’s face is covered by a surgical mask, children can ascertain their emotions based on other facial cues.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Neuroscientists Isolate Promising Mini Antibodies Against COVID-19 From a Llama
Researchers have isolated a set of antibodies from a llama which show promise for the treatment of COVID-19. The NIH-CoVnB-112 nanoantibody bound to ACE2 receptors up to ten times stronger than other lab-produced antibodies. The nanoantibody stuck dire…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Do I Know You? Researchers Evaluate How Masks Disrupt Facial Perception
It may be harder to recognize familiar faces when they wear a surgical mask to protect against COVID-19, a new study reports. Researchers noted a 15% drop in the ability for people to recognize faces when they were masked.
