Memories of objects from stressful situations rely on similar neural activity to memories of the stressful events themselves.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Genes Play Key Role in Exercise Outcomes
A new study reveals our genes play a key role in how our bodies respond to exercise. Researchers also identified specific genes that influence the outcome of different types of physical activity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Our Brains Have a Fingerprint Too
Each person has a specific brain “fingerprint”, and that fingerprint changes over the course of our lives, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Genetic Risk for Clinical Depression Linked to Physical Symptoms
Those with a genetic predisposition to clinical depression are more likely to exhibit physical symptoms including migraines, chronic pain, and fatigue, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How the Brain Deals With Uncertainty
How do we make decisions during times when we are uncertain? A new study may have clues. Researchers identified a specific set of neurons that prevent the brain from using unreliable information when faced with decision-making.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Brain Activity Patterns After Trauma May Predict Long-Term Mental Health
Study finds a link between post-traumatic brain activity and an increase in anxiety symptoms six months after a traumatic event.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Brain Activity Fluctuations May Hold the Keys to Psychiatric Treatment Efficacy
Moment-to-moment fluctuations in brain activity over a three-minute period can reliably predict how receptive a person with social anxiety will be to cognitive behavioral therapy.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Highly Processed Foods Harm Memory in the Aging Brain
A diet high in processed foods leads to neuroinflammation and memory decline in older rats, a new study reports. Supplementing a processed food diet with DHA, an omega 3 fatty acid, helped mitigate memory problems and reduce inflammation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How the Brain Ignores Distracting Information to Coordinate Movements
Researchers have identified how specific neurons in the cuneate nucleus help filter distracting information to coordinate dexterous movements. The findings have implications for the development of new prosthetics and robotic equipment that can fine-tun…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Unique Brain Signature of Intimate Partner Aggression Identified
Study reveals blunted activity in the medial prefrontal cortex was associated with aggressive behaviors by abusive partners in relationships.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Scientists Map Brain Circuit That Drives Activity in Fertile Females
Mouse study identifies specific neurons and a signaling pathway to regions of the hindbrain that mediate sexual reproductive activity and physical activity that appear to influence activity behaviors during ovulation. The findings may provide valuable …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Hormone Widely Used as an Autism Treatment Shows No Benefit
Oxytocin therapy is ineffective at improving social skills in children on the autism spectrum.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Singing and Imagining Improvised Music Elicits Flow-Like Brain States
Singing and imagined musical improvisation were associated with weaker connectivity to the executive function network in the brain and to the feeling of flow, which allows for unhindered musical creativity.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why Motion Makes You Sleepy
Motor-sensing neurons in sensory organs play a key role in motion-induced sleepiness.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Brain Activity Patterns After Trauma May Predict Long-Term Mental Health
The way a person’s brain responds to stress following a traumatic event, such as a car accident, may help to predict their long-term mental health outcomes, according to NIMH-supported research.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Macrophage Infection by HIV: Implications for Pathogenesis and Cure
The NIMH and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard are conducting a virtual meeting to examine emerging data related to macrophage interactions with the immune system during HIV infection, macrophage reservoirs and approaches to their eliminatio…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Tackling the Replication Crisis in Neuroscience
The European Quality in Preclinical Data announces the completion of their IMI project. The project provides a state of the art, learning, and fit-for-purpose system to facilitate evidence-based neuroscience research. The system is widely available, wi…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: In Neurodegenerative Diseases, Brain Immune Cells Have a Ravenous Appetite for Sugar
In the early stages of neurodegenerative diseases, microglia consume glucose to a greater extent than previously believed. The findings may serve as a new biomarker for a range of neurodegenerative disorders.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A Potential End to Postpartum Depression
Neurosteroid replacement therapy may provide relief of symptoms for new mothers suffering from postpartum depression.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Personality Traits Linked to Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease
A new study adds additional evidence to the link between personality traits and Alzheimer’s risk. Researchers found brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s are visible early on in people with certain personality traits. Those who scored high for neur…
