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LearningRx reviews study on brain plasticity

Jun 16, 2017 by

Brain plasticity: How adult-born neurons get wired in University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurobiology have found that adult-born neurons get “wired” into the brain because some of the cortical neurons transfer their connections from mature granule cells...

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LearningRx reviews study on observing fear and brain changes

May 1, 2017 by

Just observing fear changes brain connections A recent study has found that simply witnessing fear in someone who has experienced trauma can change our brain connections....

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LearningRx reviews study on talk therapy and brain connections...

Apr 25, 2017 by

Talk therapy strengthens connections in the brain to treat psychosis A team of researchers found that subjects who showed stronger connections in specific brain regions directly after receiving cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis had higher remission rates of psychosis...

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Making memories stronger and more precise as we age

Nov 9, 2016 by

A study published in Neuron explains how a team of scientists found that they could bias the competition between old neurons and new ones in the hippocampus to favor the new ones being generated....

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Language acquisition enhances brain plasticity and capacity for learning...

Nov 7, 2016 by

New research using EEGs has found that the more foreign languages a person learns, the faster their brain responds and processes the data it absorbs during learning....

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Discovery of brain area that’s unique to humans

Dec 18, 2014 by

Neuroscientists at Oxford University have identified an area of the brain that is unique to humans. The region is located in the ventrolateral frontal cortex and deals with strategic planning, decision-making and multi-tasking....

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