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Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research Opens...

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Traumatic Brain Injury: Damaged Neural Connections Can Be Rewired...

Posted by @dminiStr on Jun 17, 2013

Look who's talking about brain training. The New York Times. Read more.

“The Brain Trainers” (New York Times feature article)...

Posted by Wendy Burt on Nov 4, 2012

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How Heart Health Affects Brain Health

Feb 3, 2022 by Wendy Burt

The American Heart Association’s 2022 update to the Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics put emphasis on the bidirectional relationship between heart and brain health. For example, damage to the heart and blood vessels can increase a person’s risk of...

The Role of Gut Bacteria on Dementia

Feb 1, 2022 by Wendy Burt

Neurologists seem to be in agreement that the gut-brain axis plays a prominent role in cognitive health, especially when it comes to dementia. When microbes go through the digestive process, some of the byproducts enter the brain and affect...

Star cells in the brain render memory flexible

Jan 25, 2022 by Wendy Burt

A team of researchers at the Center for Cognition and Sociality within the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea found that star-shaped cells called astrocytes regulate cognitive flexibility. This ability refers to the brain’s ability to learn new...

Brain activity patterns emerge during musical analysis

Jan 20, 2022 by Wendy Burt

Researchers at the University of Tokyo used MRIs to look at the brains of secondary students during musical observation and found that students who had trained to play music from a young age had stronger activity in the areas...

How the brain adapts after injury

Jan 18, 2022 by Wendy Burt

A University of Gottingen study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has found that the brain compensates after damage (e.g., a stroke) by reorganizing itself. The extracellular matrix loosens and depending if the brain is healthy or diseased, this...

Brain mechanisms involved in learning also drive social conformity...

Jan 13, 2022 by Wendy Burt

Research reported in the journal Psychophysiology has shown that the same brain systems known to play a role in learning from trial and error are also engaged when people conform to social norms. This indicates that changing your behavior...

How visuals increase attention

Jan 11, 2022 by Wendy Burt

Authors from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio published a paper in the journal Science Advances in which they report that norepinephrine is locally regulated in the visual cortex. As they explain, a certain amount...