The Human Brain: Information and Research News Document List
Updated/Revised Date: 2022-04-12
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The Human Brain Publications - (78 Articles)
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.
Author: NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Publish Date: 2022-11-07 - Updated: 2022-11-08Unlocking the Power of Emotional Memory
Neuroscientists show that it is possible to turn the volume down on negative memories by stimulating happier memory.
Author: Boston University
Publish Date: 2022-10-03Inhalers 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.
Author: BMJ
Publish Date: 2022-08-31Why 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.
Author: Cell Press
Publish Date: 2022-08-12The 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.
Author: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Publish Date: 2022-08-06What Occurs in The Brain at Time of Death
Research reveals brain oscillations associated with memory retrieval alter in the moments before death, suggesting our brain may replay significant life events just before we die.
Author: Frontiers
Publish Date: 2022-07-17 - Updated: 2022-11-07Telekinesis: Making Things Move with Your Mind Now Possible
Peer-reviewed publication - Remotely Mind-controlled Metasurface via Brainwaves - reveals advancement towards real-time, remote, and wireless mind control of metamaterials.
Author: Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, CAS
Publish Date: 2022-06-14 - Updated: 2022-07-09Sleep, 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.
Author: Dr. Alan Snow, PhD
Publish Date: 2019-12-21Link 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.
Author: McGill University
Publish Date: 2018-09-06 - Updated: 2018-09-10Paralyzed 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.
Author: California Institute of Technology
Publish Date: 2018-04-10Slow 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.
Author: Washington University School of Medicine
Publish Date: 2018-04-01What Happens in the Brain During Unconsciousness
What Happens in the brain when patients undergo major surgery under general anesthesia which puts the brain in an unconscious state.
Author: Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Publish Date: 2018-03-30 - Updated: 2020-01-08Tips 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.
Author: Springer
Publish Date: 2018-03-27 - Updated: 2018-03-28Dissecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Understand the Human Brain
Cognitive neuroscientists are using emerging artificial networks to enhance understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.
Author: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Publish Date: 2018-03-25 - Updated: 2022-06-28vEAR: Why Do I Hear Silent Flashes When Viewing Animated Gif's?
Study shows around 20% of people show signs of a synaesthesia like phenomenon in which they hear silent flashes or movement called visually-evoked auditory response (vEAR).
Author: City University London
Publish Date: 2018-03-20 - Updated: 2021-01-02Memory 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.
Author: Mayo Clinic
Publish Date: 2018-01-30Human Brain Facts and Answers
Questions answers and facts relating to the human brain and the study of the brain organ and spinal cord.
Author: Disabled World
Publish Date: 2017-12-21 - Updated: 2021-04-04Why We Believe in Gods: Religious Beliefs Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking
Studies have suggested people who hold strong religious beliefs are more intuitive and less analytical, and when they think more analytically their religious beliefs decrease.
Author: Coventry University
Publish Date: 2017-11-08 - Updated: 2022-07-11Daydreaming Is a Sign of Intelligence
Brain study suggests mind wandering at work and home may not be as bad as you might think.
Author: Georgia Institute of Technology
Publish Date: 2017-10-30Neuron 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.
Author: Johns Hopkins University
Publish Date: 2017-08-11 - Updated: 2021-12-01Musical 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.
Author: IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute
Publish Date: 2016-11-17 - Updated: 2020-09-11Do 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.
Author: The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)
Publish Date: 2016-11-11 - Updated: 2021-04-24Does 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.
Author: University of Southern California
Publish Date: 2016-10-08 - Updated: 2021-05-02Woman With Amnesia Defies Conventional Memory Knowledge
Conventional wisdom about memory firmly separates declarative knowledge, memories about facts, from memories for skills, or muscle memory.
Author: Johns Hopkins University
Publish Date: 2016-06-28 - Updated: 2020-10-07Testing 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.
Author: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Publish Date: 2016-04-06 - Updated: 2021-06-05Conflict Between Science and Religion is All in Our Mind
Researchers discover the conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains.
Author: Case Western Reserve University
Publish Date: 2016-03-24 - Updated: 2021-06-13Altruism and Brain Wiring: Treating Empathically Challenged
Study reveals people with most robust responses in brain areas associated with perceiving pain, emotion, and imitating others are also the most generous.
Author: UCLA
Publish Date: 2016-03-21 - Updated: 2022-11-08Delirium Symptoms, Facts and General Information
General information and overview of delirium, a disturbance in mental abilities that results in reduced awareness and confused thinking.
Author: Thomas C. Weiss
Publish Date: 2015-09-25 - Updated: 2021-07-28Link 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.
Author: University of Virginia Health System
Publish Date: 2015-09-09 - Updated: 2018-03-16Brain'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.
Author: Henry Ford Health System
Publish Date: 2015-03-23 - Updated: 2020-09-29Scientists 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.
Author: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publish Date: 2015-01-27 - Updated: 2021-09-12Lost 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.
Author: University of California - Los Angeles
Publish Date: 2014-12-20 - Updated: 2020-11-05Brain 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.
Author: University of Miami
Publish Date: 2014-11-04 - Updated: 2020-11-29What it Means to Be Humane
New research finds compassion can produce counter-intuitive results, challenging prevailing views of empathys effects on moral judgment.
Author: think
Publish Date: 2014-06-25 - Updated: 2021-12-12Brain'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.
Author: University of Glasgow
Publish Date: 2014-05-27 - Updated: 2021-07-11Your 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.
Author: Dr. Roger Landry
Publish Date: 2014-05-17 - Updated: 2021-07-23Why Do 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.
Author: INSERM (Institut national de la sante et de la recherche medicale)
Publish Date: 2014-02-17 - Updated: 2021-02-06Researchers 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.
Author: Johns Hopkins University
Publish Date: 2014-01-18Scans 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.
Author: Weizmann Institute of Science
Publish Date: 2013-06-25REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Acting Out Dreams While Asleep
REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) can be very dangerous to the people who have it as well as injure those who share a bed with them.
Author: Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Publish Date: 2012-12-19 - Updated: 2021-06-19Social Isolation and Disruption of Myelin Production
Recent research has discovered that social isolation disrupts the process of myelination of brain cell axons.
Author: Thomas C. Weiss
Publish Date: 2012-12-06 - Updated: 2021-06-21The 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.
Author: University of Iowa Health Care
Publish Date: 2012-06-20 - Updated: 2021-09-02Decoding 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.
Author: University of California - Berkeley
Publish Date: 2012-02-01 - Updated: 2018-01-25Nutrient 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.
Author: Oregon State University
Publish Date: 2011-12-29How 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.
Author: University of Arizona
Publish Date: 2011-11-28 - Updated: 2021-11-23New 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.
Author: University of Copenhagen
Publish Date: 2011-08-19Synesthesia: Seeing Sounds and Hearing Colors
Synesthesia is a neurologically condition where people may see numbers or letters in color or see sounds and music there are over 60 types of synesthesia.
Author: Disabled World
Publish Date: 2011-07-03 - Updated: 2021-01-02Why 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.
Author: Northwestern University
Publish Date: 2011-07-02 - Updated: 2022-02-20Restoring Memory by Repairing Damaged Brains
Scientists have developed a way to turn memories on and off literally with the flip of a switch.
Author: USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Publish Date: 2011-07-01Converting 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.
Author: Lund University
Publish Date: 2011-06-12Brain and Body Conflict Helps Thinking Outside the Box
New study shows physical and psychological ambivalence leads to expanded creativity and open-mindedness.
Author: Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Publish Date: 2011-06-10 - Updated: 2022-03-11Why 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.
Author: Johns Hopkins University
Publish Date: 2011-05-14Butterflies in Stomach and Gut Feelings are Real
Gut bacteria influences anxiety like behavior through alterations in the way the brain is wired.
Author: McMaster University
Publish Date: 2011-03-24Long-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.
Author: Duke University Medical Center
Publish Date: 2011-03-21Important 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.
Author: Ruhr-University Bochum
Publish Date: 2011-03-18Brain's Ability to Reorganize Itself
Isolating the mechanisms by which the brain compensates for disruptions and reroutes neural functioning.
Author: University of Michigan Health System
Publish Date: 2011-03-18Brain 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.
Author: University of California - Berkeley
Publish Date: 2011-03-09Brain 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.
Author: Elsevier
Publish Date: 2011-03-09Dementia: 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.
Author: Karolinska Institutet
Publish Date: 2011-02-23 - Updated: 2022-05-27Human 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.
Author: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publish Date: 2011-02-22 - Updated: 2022-05-27Brain 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.
Author: University of Southampton
Publish Date: 2011-02-19 - Updated: 2022-05-30The Brain Learns from Mistakes
The process of establishing a neuronal network does not always prove precise or error free.
Author: Public Library of Science
Publish Date: 2011-02-10Brains Need Love Too
Demonstrating how a mothers love positively affects her offsprings developing brain.
Author: Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Publish Date: 2011-02-03Selective Sleeping Stores Useful Memories
After a good night sleep, people remember information better when they know it will be helpful in the future.
Author: Society for Neuroscience
Publish Date: 2011-02-02 - Updated: 2022-06-16How Quickly We Forget - Out of Mind in a Matter of Seconds
How quickly information stored in the activity patterns of the cerebral cortex neurons is discarded.
Author: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Publish Date: 2011-01-24Ways to Help Improve Your Memory
People over the age of twenty-seven experience a decline in cognitive skills according to research performed by the University of Virginia.
Author: Disabled World
Publish Date: 2011-01-04 - Updated: 2014-04-19Structure 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.
Author: Massachusetts General Hospital
Publish Date: 2010-12-26The Part of the Brain that Suppresses Instinct
Revealing which regions in the brain fire up when we suppress an automatic behavior.
Author: York University
Publish Date: 2010-12-22When 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.
Author: Cell Press
Publish Date: 2010-12-17Brain 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.
Author: Dr. Lorne S. Label, Brain Longevity Center
Publish Date: 2010-11-27The 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.
Author: University of Utah
Publish Date: 2010-11-27 - Updated: 2014-05-05The Speed of Brain Cell Communication
Brain cell communication network the synapses transmit messages via chemical neurotransmitters packaged in small containers called vesicles.
Author: University of Copenhagen
Publish Date: 2010-11-27Molecular 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.
Author: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Publish Date: 2010-11-27How 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.
Author: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Publish Date: 2010-08-26 - Updated: 2018-03-25Part of the Brain that Tracks Your Limb Positions Found
Scientists have discovered the part of the brain that tracks the position of our limbs as we move through space.
Author: University College London
Publish Date: 2010-07-16 - Updated: 2010-11-27Making of the Male Brain - Testosterone and Estrogen
The masculine brain has more aromatase testosterone converting estrogen neurons in certain regions.
Author: Cell Press
Publish Date: 2009-10-01 - Updated: 2010-11-27The Connection Between Brain and Loneliness
fMRI scans study connections between perceived social isolation or loneliness and activity in the human brain.
Author: University of Chicago
Publish Date: 2009-02-16 - Updated: 2020-09-30Brain Asymmetry Research
A tug-of-war between two sides of the brain causes it to become asymmetrical according to research.
Author: Wellcome Trust
Publish Date: 2009-01-14 - Updated: 2010-11-27
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