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| Scientists can control brain circuits, behavior, and emotion using light Posted: 30 Nov 2021 08:25 AM PST Scientists can control brain circuits, behavior, and emotion using light. Researchers developed a new optogenetic tool, 'Opto-vTrap', which is expected to contribute to treatment for epilepsy, muscle spasms, and skin wrinkles. |
| Nonverbal social interactions – even with unfriendly avatars – boost cooperation Posted: 30 Nov 2021 07:14 AM PST Scientists used animated humanoid avatars to study how nonverbal cues influence people's behavior. The research offers insight into the brain mechanisms that drive social and economic decision-making. |
| Courting success: Why the 'head' outsmarts the body in basketball Posted: 30 Nov 2021 07:14 AM PST A new study reveals why coaches believe 'game intelligence,' work ethic and competitiveness are far more important than physical fitness in determining success on the basketball court. |
| Treating insomnia with cognitive behavioral therapy can prevent major depression in older adults Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:39 PM PST A new study has found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I) prevented major depression, decreasing the likelihood of depression by over 50% as compared to sleep education therapy in adults over the age of 60 with insomnia. |
| Those that game together, stay together Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:38 PM PST Play is important for the development of complex social, emotional, physical, and cognitive skills. Play provides young individuals with a safe space to practice new behaviors without grave repercussions. While most animals engage in play, only humans engage in rule-based games. Which kinds of games people play -- competitive or cooperative -- may depend on their cultural background. In a new study, researchers screened historical data to answer the question whether cultures play games that correspond to how cooperative they are. |
| Study looks at brain flow, and how people achieve it Posted: 23 Nov 2021 01:27 PM PST Flow is said to be good for our well-being -- and there is evidence that it can ward off depression, prevent burnout and make us more resilient. We seek it out, but we don't understand how the brain enables flow very well. |
| Neurobiologists reveal how value decisions are coded into our brains Posted: 23 Nov 2021 01:26 PM PST A new study is showing how value choices are recorded in our brains. Researchers found that persistency allows value signals to be most effectively represented, or 'coded,' across different areas of the brain, especially in a critical area within the cerebrum known as the retrosplenial cortex. |
| Social stress key to population's rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds Posted: 23 Nov 2021 10:13 AM PST Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country's rate of infection. |
| Reboot and recall: New brain hub for memory restoration identified Posted: 23 Nov 2021 10:13 AM PST Researchers now show that stimulation of the anterior thalamus increases memory-related brain activity and restores memory function in rats with mammillothalamic tract (MTT) lesions. Their findings suggest that therapies involving targeted stimulation of the anterior thalamus could help with memory restoration in patients with brain injury. |
| Stereotypes in STEM fields start by age six Posted: 22 Nov 2021 02:27 PM PST The perception that boys are more interested than girls in computer science and engineering starts as young as age six, according to a new study. That may be one reason why girls and women are underrepresented in these STEM career fields. |
| Search for safer pain relief advances with new compounds Posted: 22 Nov 2021 02:27 PM PST Opioid medications remain a go-to treatment for severe pain, whether it's from surgery, a sudden injury, or nerve damage. But as opioid addiction and overdose deaths reach new highs in the United States, the need for safer ways to treat acute pain has grown more urgent. A new collection of compounds shows promise. |
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