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Analysing patients shortly after stroke can help link brain regions to spe
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 24 (ANI): Analysing the brains of stroke patients just days after the stroke allows researchers to link various speech functions to different parts of the brain according to new research from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine. This important breakthrou
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Scientists reveal brain mechanism that determines decisions about sharing
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 25 (ANI): A recent study has demonstrated that the answer to why some people are generous while some are selfish may be found in an intricate and rhythmic neuronal dance between two specific brain regions, namely, the amygdala and the medial frontal cortex.
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Influence of genetics on cannabis dependence in adolescent females: Study
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 16 (ANI): Researchers have identified that a variant in a particular gene, that is found in about one-third of people, increases vulnerability to THC in females. It also has a large-scale impact on brain regions and pathways responsible for processing reward.
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Study reflects how stress in pregnant mothers affect babies
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): Maternal stress, anxiety, and depression go a step higher if a fetus is found to have congenital heart disease. But this level of anxiety in pregnant mothers can lead to impaired development in key brain regions of the babies before they are born.
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Stress in pregnant mothers can affect babies' hearts, says study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): According to recent research, knowing that your unborn fetus has congenital heart disease can cause pronounced maternal stress, anxiety, and depression that can lead to impaired development in key brain regions of the babies before they are born.
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Study reveals baby and adult brains 'sync up' during play
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 12 (ANI): Researchers have conducted the first study of how baby and adult brains interact during natural play, and they found measurable similarities in their neural activity. The study suggests that you might be 'on the same wavelength,' experiencing similar b
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Adult and baby brains share same wavelength during play, study finds
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [India], Jan 10 (ANI): A new research study suggests that adult brains are likely to be on the same wavelength, experiencing similar brain activity in the same brain regions as of the babies while playing with them.
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Women taking birth control pill likely to have smaller key brain region: S
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 07 (ANI): A new study by researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, has significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not taking the pill.
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Key brain region smaller in birth control pill users: Study
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 04 (ANI): If you have been taking birth control pills either to treat irregular periods, cramps, acne, PCOS, endometriosis or other conditions here's the news for you! A new study by researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, common
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How the brain helps us make good or bad decisions
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 26 (ANI): Ever wonder what process does your brain follow when there is a decision to be made - good or bad? Yale researchers have found that three distinct circuits connecting to different brain regions are involved in making decisions.
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Researchers find brain region reserved for Pokemon characters
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 7 (ANI): Here's an interesting piece of information for all the Pokenerd out there. Recent findings have identified preferential activation to Pokemon characters in the brains of people who played Pokemon videogames extensively as kids.
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Exercise activates memory neural networks in older adults: study
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [USA], April 26 (ANI): Recent findings suggest that when it comes to older adults, just one session of exercise can increase activation in the brain circuits associated with memory - including the hippocampus - which shrinks with age and is the brain region attacked first in Al
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