The Human Brain: Facts, Information, and Research: Publications and Documents
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The Human Brain: Information and Research News Publications cover a wide range of topics related to brain health, neurology, and cognitive function. Articles explore subjects like traumatic brain injuries, neurodegenerative diseases, memory enhancement, and the latest scientific breakthroughs in brain research. These publications from scientific journals, news articles, and research updates, provide valuable insights into how the brain works, offering helpful information for individuals with neurological conditions, seniors concerned about cognitive decline, and those seeking a deeper understanding of mental and physical well-being. With expert analysis and research updates, these resources are both informative and thought-provoking, making complex neurological topics accessible to a broad audience. By exploring the intricacies of the brain, this resource offers valuable insights into how our minds work, which can be particularly useful for individuals seeking to understand cognitive processes, manage brain health, or navigate the challenges posed by disabilities or age-related cognitive decline.Searching the Database
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| Study Reveals How Learning Reshapes Brain Circuits Study reveals how motor learning reshapes brain circuits, offering insights for therapies aiding motor rehabilitation and neurological disorders. | ✓ ✓ | |
| New Psychology Research Reveals How Our Brains Segment the Day into Chapters What determines how the brain divides the day into individual events that we can understand and remember separately. | ✓ | |
| Unraveling the Neuroscience: How Aging Impacts Memory Organization Researchers uncover how memory maintenance and deletion shape cognitive decline in aging. | ✓ | |
| Harnessing Mindfulness and Meditation: Using Inner Focus for Mental Well-being Tuning into interoception, how someone senses their body's internal state, is an important component of mindfulness training that could aid in managing mood disorders such as depression. | ||
| The Cognitive Neuroscience of Dreaming and Sleep How neuroscientists at CNS 2024 study dreams, lucid dreaming, and sleep perception, and how that research may help people with insomnia and chronic nightmares. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Power of Illusion Helps to Learn New Movements Visual aids creating illusion of movement can improve motor performance and early stages of motor learning. | ||
| Forgetting May Be a Form of Learning, Study Finds Peer-reviewed Trinity College Dublin study finds forgetting is not a memory failure but a functional brain feature that supports flexible behavior and decisions. | ✓ ✓ | |
| How the Brain's Neural Clock Judges Time Duration Peer-reviewed research reveals how brain neural activity directly controls time perception, offering insights for developing treatments for Parkinson's and Huntington's. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Noninvasive Brain Decoder Can Transcribe Stories in the Mind New artificial intelligence (AI) system can translate brain activity while listening to a story, or silently imagining telling a story, into text. | ||
| Brain Evolution Study Suggests Catalyst for How the Human Brain Evolved New finding came out of a study analyzing how stretches of DNA called human accelerated regions (HARs) differ between humans and chimpanzees. | ||
| How the Brain Purges Unwanted Thoughts From Memory Research reveals three distinct brain mechanisms for intentional forgetting and what they mean for treating PTSD, ADHD, depression, and other disorders. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Why Congenitally Blind Show Activity in Brain Visual-Processing Areas Often people born blind can activate the vision-processing region of the brain, the occipital cortex, when engaging in a non-visual activity, such as reading in Braille. | ||
| How the Brain Prioritizes Emotional Events in Memory Peer reviewed study identifies the neural mechanism in the amygdala and hippocampus that tags emotional information for stronger memory encoding in the brain. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Lucid Dying: Recalling Death Experiences 20% of people who survive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after cardiac arrest may describe lucid experiences of death while seemingly unconscious. | ||
| Positive Memories Can Rewrite Negative Ones in Brain Peer reviewed neuroscience research shows stimulating positive memories can reduce the emotional intensity of negative ones, offering hope for PTSD and depression. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Inhalers and Steroid Medications Change Brain Matter The associations found might help to explain the neuropsychiatric effects, such as anxiety, depression, mania, and delirium frequently seen after long-term use. | ||
| Why Thinking Hard Makes You Feel Tired A study found people who spent over six hours working on tedious and mentally taxing tasks had higher levels of glutamate - an important signaling molecule in the brain. | ||
| The Human Brain Did Not Shrink 3,000 Years Ago Did the transition to complex societies in the Holocene drive a reduction in brain size? A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. (2021) hypothesis. | ||
| What Happens in the Brain at the Time of Death Peer-reviewed research records a dying human brain and finds memory-related brain waves that may replay life events, raising new questions about when life ends. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Telekinesis: Making Things Move with Your Mind Now Possible A peer-reviewed study shows how a user's brainwaves, sent wirelessly over Bluetooth, can remotely control programmable metasurfaces that steer electromagnetic waves. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Sleep, Diet, Exercise, and Social Life Equals a Healthy Brain Brain health, like physical health, depends on lifestyle factors including diet, exercise and proper sleep, all of which reduce inflammation. | ||
| Link Between Obesity, Brain, and Genetics When it comes to weight gain, the problem may be mostly in our heads, and our genes - The link between obesity, the brain, and genetics. | ||
| Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation Again by Stimulating Brain Using a tiny array of electrodes implanted in the brain somatosensory cortex, Caltech scientists have induced sensations of touch and movement in the arm of a paralyzed man. | ||
| Slow Steady Rhythmic Brain Waves Linked to Consciousness Your brain has 100 billion neurons and they have to be coordinated, these slowly varying signals in the brain get a large-scale coordination of activities in all diverse areas of the brain. | ||
| Unveiling the Brain's Response: How General Anesthesia Works During Complex Surgical Procedures Explore the neural mechanisms of general anesthesia during major surgery, including how it induces unconsciousness and affects brain function. | ||
| Tips to Help with Embarrassment and Embarrassing Situations By training your mind to be an observer rather than actively participating in an embarrassing situation it is possible to overcome humiliating or distressing feelings. | ||
| AI Decodes Human Brain: Advancing Neuro Research and Assistive Tech Exploring how AI models illuminate human brain function, aiding neurological research and assistive tech development for aging and disabled populations. | ✓ ✓ | |
| vEAR: Hearing Silent Flashes When Viewing Animated Images Peer-reviewed research finds 21% experience vEAR, where silent visual flashes or movement trigger vivid sounds, revealing new insights into cross-sensory perception. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Memory Improved by Tickling the Brain with Electrical Stimulation Tickling the brain with low-intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short-term memory. | ||
| Human Brain Facts and Answers Fascinating look into the human brain and how it works, health facts, and why it matters for everyone. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Belief in Gods Not Linked to Rational Thinking Peer-reviewed study finds no link between cognitive style and religious belief, highlighting the influence of upbringing and culture over intuition or logic. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Daydreaming Is a Sign of Intelligence Brain study suggests mind wandering at work and home may not be as bad as you might think. | ||
| Neuron by Neuron Mapping of the Brain Team of neuroscientists to create a complete map of the learning and memory center of the fruit fly larva brain. | ||
| Musical Anhedonia: A Dislike of Music Study explains brain mechanisms associated to lack of sensitivity to music and how the brain of people who do not like music works. | ||
| Do Males or Females Have Better Memory Study proves middle-aged women outperform age-matched men on all memory measures, although memory does decline as women enter postmenopause. | ||
| Does Human Brain Size Matter? Cracking the Brain's Genetic Code USC scientists are cracking the genetic code of the human brain, discovering how variations in DNA affect the structure of our brains. | ||
| Woman With Amnesia Defies Conventional Memory Knowledge Conventional wisdom about memory firmly separates declarative knowledge, memories about facts, from memories for skills, or muscle memory. | ||
| Testing Brain Training Claims Researchers identifying who may benefit from cognitive training and the new methods most likely to result in long-lasting, positive effects on cognition. | ||
| Conflict Between Science and Religion is All in Our Mind Case Western Reserve research explains how the brain's analytical and empathetic networks suppress each other, shaping the tension between science and religion. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Altruism and Brain Wiring: Treating Empathically Challenged Research reveals that people with heightened activity in brain regions associated with empathy and emotion are the most generous and altruistic. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Delirium Symptoms, Facts and General Information General information and overview of delirium, a disturbance in mental abilities that results in reduced awareness and confused thinking. | ||
| Link Between Brain and Immune System Has Major Implications Stunning discovery determines the human brain is directly connected to immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist. | ||
| Brain's Ability to Heal Itself Research Offers Hope for TBI Groundbreaking pioneering work is underway seeks to understand and repair brain function at the molecular level. | ||
| Scientists Map Brains of Blind to Solve Mysteries Studying brain activity of blind people, scientists are challenging the standard view of how the human brain specializes to perform different kinds of tasks, and shedding new light on how our brains can adapt to rapid cultural and technological changes. | ||
| Lost Memories May be Able to be Restored New research indicates lost memories can be restored, these findings offer hope for patients in early stages of Alzheimers disease. | ||
| Brain Skull Connect Implications for Spina Bifida and Chiari Malformation Researchers discover network of tissue communication that ensures the brain and spinal cord are matched with the skull and spinal column during embryonic development. | ||
| What it Means to Be Humane New research finds compassion can produce counter-intuitive results, challenging prevailing views of empathys effects on moral judgment. | ||
| Brain's Visual Cortex Also Processes Auditory Information Scientists studying brain process involved in sight found the visual cortex also uses information gleaned from the ears as well as the eyes when viewing the world. | ||
| Your Amazing Brain: Avoiding Dementia and Promoting Better Brain Health Dr. Roger Landry author of Live Long Die Short - A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging, takes a look at the amazing human brain. | ||
| Why We Sometimes Remember Dreams In a new study a research team sought to identify which areas of the brain differentiate high and low dream re-callers. | ||
| Researchers Find Caffeine Enhances Memory Researchers find caffeine has a positive effect on long-term memory in humans up to 24 hours after it is consumed. | ||
| Scans Reveal Past Brain Activity - Possible Future Use in Diagnosing Cognitive Disabilities Researchers discover spontaneously emerging activity patterns preserve traces of previous cognitive activity in the human brain. | ||
| REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Acting Out Dreams While Asleep RBD (REM Sleep Behavior Disorder) poses significant risks to individuals who experience it, and there's potential for harm to the affected person and anyone sharing a bed with them. | ||
| Social Isolation and Disruption of Myelin Production Recent research has discovered that social isolation disrupts the process of myelination of brain cell axons. | ||
| The Human Brain: Adaptable Decision Making How part of the brain helps predict future events from past experiences and the function of front most part of the frontal lobe the frontopolar cortex. | ||
| Decoding Brain Waves - Understanding Paralyzed Patients Thoughts Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis. | ||
| Nutrient Levels and Diet Linked to Cognitive Ability and Brain Shrinkage Favorable cognitive outcomes and brain size measurements associated with two dietary patterns high levels of marine fatty acids and high levels of vitamins B C D and E. | ||
| How the Brain Works: Stringing Words into Sentences Advances in brain imaging reveal complex cognitive tasks like language processing rely on particular regions of the cerebral cortex and white matter fiber pathways connecting them. | ||
| New Piece to Puzzle of Brain Communication Function Discovery about a part of the brains complex communication system could form basis for development of better medicines for patients with psychiatric disorders. | ||
| Synesthesia: Seeing Sounds and Hearing Colors Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where senses blend, such as seeing sounds or tasting colors, with over 60 types described and explored. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Why Do Some Races All Look Alike Biological evidence suggesting the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from your own race than when memorizing a face from another race. | ||
| Neural Prosthesis Restores and Enhances Memory in Rats USC and Wake Forest scientists developed an electronic brain prosthesis that restores long-term memory in rats by duplicating hippocampal neural signals. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Converting Skin Cells to Brain Cells Research has proven it is possible to reprogram mature cells from human skin directly into brain cells without passing through the stem cell stage. | ||
| Brain and Body Conflict Helps Thinking Outside the Box New study shows physical and psychological ambivalence leads to expanded creativity and open-mindedness. | ||
| Why It's Harder to Remember Things as We Get Older The older we get the more difficulty we seem to have remembering things as our aging brains are unable to process this information as new. | ||
| Butterflies in Stomach and Gut Feelings are Real Gut bacteria influences anxiety like behavior through alterations in the way the brain is wired. | ||
| Long-term Memory Making - Major Clue Discovered Findings about how brain synapses change the strength of connections could have a bearing on Alzheimers disease autism and mental retardation. | ||
| Important Role for Cerebellum - Epilepsy Trigger Discovered Hereditary diseases such as epilepsy or various coordination disorders may be caused by changes in nerve cells of the cerebellum. | ||
| How the Brain Reorganizes Itself After Disruption University of Michigan study reveals how the brain compensates for disrupted neural functioning by rerouting key processes tied to learning and memory. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Brain Waves Boost Ability to Learn as We Sleep Bursts of brain waves known as sleep spindles may be networking between key regions of the brain to clear a path to learning. | ||
| Brain Cerebellum Provides Clues to Human Intelligence Grey matter volume in the cerebellum at the back of the brain may predicts cognitive ability or intelligence level. | ||
| Dementia: Looking After Your Aging Brain The lengthening of the average life span in today's population has caused an increase in the prevalence of aging related disorders. | ||
| Human Brain Does Not Need Vision to Read Brain imaging studies of blind people as they read in Braille show activity in the same part of the brain that lights up when sighted readers read. | ||
| Brain Function Linked to Birth Size Evidence links brain function variations between the left and right sides of the brain to size at birth and the weight of the placenta. | ||
| The Brain Learns from Mistakes The process of establishing a neuronal network does not always prove precise or error free. | ||
| Brains Need Love Too Demonstrating how a mothers love positively affects her offsprings developing brain. | ||
| Sleep Selectively Stores Memories the Brain Deems Useful Study finds the brain tags important memories while awake and selectively consolidates them during deep sleep, retaining information deemed useful for the future. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Brain Forgets Fast - One Bit Per Neuron Per Second Lost Research from the Max Planck Institute reveals the brain's cerebral cortex deletes stored sensory information at a rate of one bit per active neuron per second. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Proven Ways to Help Improve Your Memory and Recall Research-backed tips and techniques to improve memory, from diet and exercise to sleep habits, brain games, and lifestyle changes that protect cognitive health. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Structure Deep in the Brain May Contribute to Varied Social Life The amygdala a small almond shaped structure deep within the brain temporal lobe is important to a rich and varied social life among humans. | ||
| The Part of the Brain that Suppresses Instinct Revealing which regions in the brain fire up when we suppress an automatic behavior. | ||
| When the Brain Knows no Fear Insight into emotional life of an individual who lacks function of an almond-shaped structure in the brain known as the amygdala. | ||
| Brain Foods - What You Eat Affects Your Brain Article examines foods and exercises in order to maintain a health brain in middle age and senior years. | ||
| The Brain Speaks - Decoding Words from Brain Signals Decoding spoken words using only signals from the brain with a device that has promise for long-term use in paralyzed patients who cannot now speak. | ||
| The Speed of Brain Cell Communication Brain cell communication network the synapses transmit messages via chemical neurotransmitters packaged in small containers called vesicles. | ||
| Molecular Switch that Controls Neuronal Migration in the Developing Brain Identified Key components of a signaling pathway that controls departure of neurons from the brain niche where they form and allows cells to start migrating to their final destination. | ||
| How the Brain Shifts Between Sleep and Awake States Under Anesthesia Information regarding how the human brain transitions between conscious and unconscious states when under anesthesia. | ||
| The Brain Area That Tracks Your Limbs in Space Researchers identify the posterior parietal cortex as the brain region that maps limb position by combining touch and a sense of where the body sits in space. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Hormones and Male Brain Development: Testosterone, Estrogen Report explains how hormones like testosterone and estrogen influence brain circuitry development and behavior, with insights from peer-reviewed research. | ✓ ✓ | |
| The Connection Between Brain and Loneliness fMRI scans study connections between perceived social isolation or loneliness and activity in the human brain. | ✓ | |
| Brain Asymmetry Research A tug-of-war between two sides of the brain causes it to become asymmetrical according to research. |
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