part of brain largely responsible for personality, decision making, and social behaviour
psypost.org Nov 04
A simple cognitive reframing strategy reduces sensory brain responses in autistic youth
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New Scientist Nov 02
Zapping part of the brain makes you think harder – at a cost: Stimulating a part of the brain linked to mental effort boosts performance in demanding tasks ...
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Mindfulness-based therapy may reshape brain responses to opioid cues during addiction treatment
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Bigger burial grounds will curb Nigeria’s air crashes: A columnist reflects on the death of 25 NAF personnel in a military plane crash in Igbokoda, Ondo State ...
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New Japanese Study Claims Driving a Manual Keeps Your Brain Healthy: Neuroscientists believe that rowing your own gears helps the brain's prefrontal cortex and ...
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Changing Your Mind Is a Brain Balancing Act, and New Research Shows What Can Throw It Off
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psypost.org Sep 29
Brain structure linked to how well patients respond to an antidepressant, small study finds
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Nature Sep 29
Vast cellular gene-expression atlas could transform how scientists understand brain ageing and disease
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They made progress toward deciphering molecular processes that underlie some devastating brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease ... Show more
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New Japanese Study Claims Driving a Manual Keeps Your Brain Healthy: Neuroscientists believe that rowing your own gears helps the brain's prefrontal cortex and ...
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dailyneuron.com Aug 22
Brain Waves Look Like Exhaust and Behave Like an Engine - Daily Neuron: Three drugs knock you out by different routes and leave the wiring intact ...
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Flexible brain circuits can switch between different tasks: As we move through everyday life, our brains engage in a huge variety of cognitive tasks. For example ...
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news.emory.edu Aug 10
How mice learn to think out of the box — a neuroscience surprise: Emory biologists show how the prefrontal cortex, a brain region associated with learning more ...
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cell.com Aug 01
A cortical-hypothalamic neural circuit for compulsive eating in mice: Leow et al. identify a prefrontal-hypothalamic circuit that drives compulsive ...
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Medical Xpress - Medical and Health News : After more than 30,000 car-sorting trials, participants’ brains appeared to shift category decisions from the prefrontal cortex to visual areas ... Show more
psypost.org Jul 18
Short-video viewing temporarily shuts down cognitive control networks, study finds
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Nature Jul 02
Competing programs shape cortical sensorimotor–association axis development: The cerebral cortex is organized along a dominant sensorimotor-to-association (S–A) ...
nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10699-x
New Japanese Study Claims Driving a Manual Keeps Your Brain Healthy: Neuroscientists believe that rowing your own gears helps the brain's prefrontal cortex and ...
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psypost.org Jun 23
Study finds altered glutamate concentrations in specific brain areas of adolescents with ADHD
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WoW: Liver rather unusual - | The Prey Hunt drinking game and stress as game design
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Brain region found to be linked to TMS's antidepressant effects: A circuit that runs from the prefrontal cortex near the front of the brain to a deeper ...
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Think Multitasking Is Impossible? A New Brain Study Says We’ve Been Wrong About It for Years
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Scientists have long said we can’t multitask. A new study says we can: ‘This is unlocking a whole new set of questions,’ one researcher said
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Duration of depression may influence how severely the disease alters the brain: Depression affects about 5.8% of the Brazilian population and presents a wide ...
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Discovery of brain-body connection offers clues for Parkinson's and alcohol use disorder
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‘The Testaments’ Recap, Episode 7: ‘Commitment’: The second half of The Testaments’ first season is preoccupied with backstory, so this week, in ‘Commitment ...
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VICE’s Slang Amnesty: The Silly Words You’re Too Old to Say: Every time your age changes, there are words that become shameful to use overnight ...
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neurosciencenews.com Mar 12
Unlocking the Relapse Switch: The Circuit That Drives Addiction: Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI ...
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sciencedirect.com Mar 11
BDNF relates to prefrontal cortex activity in the context of physical exercise: Exercise has been shown to support brain health, cognitive function ...
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006899326001125
psypost.org Feb 10
Unexpected study results complicate the use of brain stimulation for anxiety: A new study suggests electrical brain stimulation might boost focus in patients ...
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What’s the Link Between Multitasking and Memory Loss?
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news.mit.edu Jan 24
To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space: MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and ...
news.mit.edu/2026/to-flexibly-organize-thought-the-brain-makes-use-of-space-0120
Brain-inspired AI: Human brain separates goals and uncertainty to enable adaptive decision-making
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Scientists Discover Why the Human Brain Is Unique at the Cellular Level | NEWS.am Medicine - All about health and medicine
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Medical Xpress - Medical and Health News : The human prefrontal cortex matures more slowly than that of macaques, driven by prolonged glial progenitor proliferation and unique gene expression ... Show more
It’s so hard to resist overspending at Christmas – here’s how to reinforce your willpower
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eurekalert.org Nov 26 25
Prefrontal cortex reaches back into the brain to shape how other regions function
eurekalert.org/news-releases/1106899
psypost.org Nov 15 25
ADHD’s “stuck in the present” nature may be rooted in specific brain network communication
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psypost.org Nov 09 25
Subtle brain changes found in children exposed to trauma, even without behavioral symptoms
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Medical Xpress - Medical and Health News : Abnormal sugar modifications in brain proteins disrupt emotional circuits, directly contributing to depression. This newly identified molecular pathway ... Show more
Richard Hogan: Why we all lose our temper — and what it really means: "Losing your temper isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but if it is constant in your life ...
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Scientists explore where consciousness arises in the brain: Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine ...
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