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| | | Lasting Effect of Surgery on the Brain When you have a surgery, you might experience an unintended side-effect: cognitive challenges. Researchers have found that “postoperative cognitive dysfunction,” or POCD, can persist for at least six months in 10-30% of people over 65, affecting memory, judgment, attention, and more. But what causes it, and are other groups of people equally affected? Find out.
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Can We Really Understand “A Million Dead”? When we hear that almost a million people have died of COVID in the United States, we can’t really grasp what it means, argue neuroscientists Lindsey Hasak and Elizabeth Toomarian. That’s because while the human brain can intuitively understand small numbers—immediately identifying two, four, or five items, for example—it has much more trouble with large numbers. Find out why, and what the implications might be. |
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Plasticity at Work Recently, scientists have had the opportunity to study the brain of a woman who goes by “EG.” What’s interesting about her is that she has no left temporal lobe; instead, the area where it would have been is filled with cerebro-spinal fluid. But although EG is missing a large part of her brain—one often associated with language learning—she has a graduate degree, a robust vocabulary, and an impressive career, much to the surprise of many of her doctors. She has the brain’s amazing plasticity—its ability to reorganize—to thank. Learn more. |
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Does Your Personality Relate to How Your Brain Ages? According to a new study, the answer is yes. The research, conducted at the University of Victoria in Canada, showed that people who are extroverted and conscientious are less likely to exhibit cognitive decline in older adulthood when compared to people who are more neurotic. But is the relationship cause-and-effect, or vice versa? Learn more. |
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Nutritional Psychiatry A relatively new field of study is “nutritional psychiatry,” the study of how what we eat affects our mood and mental health. This article shares 35 common foods that nutritional psychiatrists recommend—because they boost mood, help with sleep, encourage dopamine production, and more. Find out what they are. |
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A Mystery of Brain Cancer Al Lupiano was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 27. He recovered. Then his wife and sister also got that diagnosis. His sister did not recover, and died at 44. What they had in common: they all went to the same high school. With Lupiano’s help, researchers have now discovered that almost 100 students and staff from Colonia High School in New Jersey have had malignant brain tumors—a percentage far, far greater than the national average. Most of the students graduated between 1975 and 2000—though some have been more recent. Learn more. |
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Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection By Stephanie Cacioppo
One of the foremost experts on romantic love and how it changes the brain, Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo merges her personal story of love and loss with the scientific processes of love in her new book, Wired for Love. Why do we fall in love? How does being in a relationship change our brains? And what happens if we lose the object of that love? These and other questions are answered in this remarkable book. Learn more. |
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