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Training cognitive control in children does not change brain or behavior, finds study
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoThe findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, appear to debunk the popular idea that brain training could improve cognitive control—the mental processes that allow us to ...
Sleep and Social Media Impact Youth Brain Development
Medscape· 3 days agoA study of teens revealed distinct interactions between sleep duration, social media use, and brain...
Popular weight-loss drugs Wegovy, Ozempic may lower desire for sweets
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe active ingredient in the weight-loss medications, semaglutide, also appears to affect the way...
Detailed mapping of the complex fiber structure and white matter pathways of the chimpanzee brain -...
Nature· 4 days agoThis resource presents a high-resolution diffusion MRI dataset of a chimpanzee brain, which should be useful for evolutionary studies of primate brain evolution.
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic may improve taste sensitivity in women, preliminary research suggests
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMRI scans revealed that most of the brain activity was concentrated in the angular gyrus, a portion...
FDA analysis raises no major concerns about Eli Lilly Alzheimer's drug
KSL Salt Lake City· 1 day agoAn FDA analysis of trial data for Eli Lilly's experimental Alzheimer's drug donanemab released on...
First-of-its-kind test can predict dementia up to nine years before diagnosis
Medical Xpress· 1 day agoMary, University of London have developed a new method for predicting dementia with over 80% accuracy and up to nine years before a diagnosis. The new method provides a more accurate way to ...
'Sleeping on it' really does help and four other recent sleep research breakthroughs
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoDuring the past decade, there has been a surge of interest from researchers in the nature and...
Internet addiction affects behavior and development of adolescents, study finds
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoAdolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional...
Neuroscience can explain why voting is so often driven by emotion
The Conversation· 10 hours agoIn late 1960s Britain, the Pedersen index stood at just over 10%, now it is closer to 40%. A recent study by Professor Hanspeter Kreisi, a Swiss election expert, reported ...