Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): Monetary gain and high-risk plans stimulate activity in the brain, according to Japanese researchers. Dr. Tadashi Ino and colleagues, from the Department of Neurology at the Rakuwakai-Otowa Hospital and ...

London, Nov 16 (ANI): Discovering a potential new treatment for Huntington's disease, researchers have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells protects the brain from the misfolded proteins characteristic to the ...

London, Nov 16 (ANI): Hypnosis has a "very real" effect on the brain that can be easily picked up via scans, according to Hull University researchers. In an imaging study of hypnotised participants, ...

London, Nov 15 (ANI): Fail to keep track of conversations at noisy parties? Well, learn playing an instrument to enhance your ability to pick up emotional cues in conversation, says a new ...

London, Nov 14 (ANI): Fail to keep track of conversations at noisy parties? Well, learn playing an instrument to enhance your ability to pick up emotional cues in conversation, says a new ...

Washington, November 11 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have determined that during some of their dives, migrating northern elephant seals slowly roll on their backs and allow themselves to sink downward, ...

Washington, Nov 11 (ANI): A new study by Canadian scientists has shown that focusing on a pretty image can ease pain. According to the study, negative and positive emotions have a direct ...

Washington, November 10 (ANI): A new study has challenged the long-held theory of human brain using different mechanisms for forming long-term and short-term memories. Neuroscientists from UCL assessed patients with amnesia for the ...

Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Some aromas get etched into our memories since childhood, and now researchers at Weizmann Institute have found the scientific basis of this connection.According to graduate student Yaara Yeshurun, ...

Washington, Oct 24 (ANI): Prenatal sex-based biological differences can extend to genetic expression in cerebral cortices and are probably associated with later divergences in how our brains develop, a new study by ...

London, October 18 (ANI): You can stop your ageing grandparents from becoming forgetful by simply asking them to surf the net, for a new study has found that Googling can consistently stimulate ...

Washington, Oct 16 (ANI): Using a rare procedure, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have revealed how language is processed in the brain. The feat is a significant ...

Washington, Oct 9 (ANI): When a person learns a new task, there is a measurable change in his or her spontaneous brain activity, earlier believed to be "white noise", according to researchers ...

London, Oct 5 (IANS) Brain waves can have a direct influence on a person's behaviour, say researchers after an experiment found that people can be made to move in slow motion by ...

London, Oct 5 (IANS) Brain waves can have a direct influence on a person's behaviour, say researchers after an experiment found that people can be made to move in slow motion by ...

Washington, Oct 4 (ANI): American doctors believe that it is possible to pinpoint the area of the brain that is activated when a person suffers from tinnitus, a chronic ringing of the ...

Washington, Oct 2 (ANI): Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave. The new finding can pave way for treating conditions like ...

London, Sep 29 (ANI): Scientists at the University College London have found that the hippocampus in the brain is responsible for our ability to organise the world into separate concepts. Forming a concept ...

Washington, September 26 (ANI): Compulsive hoarding may be inherited in some cases, with gene research lending some support to this suggestion. People who compulsively acquire and hoard clutter to the extent ...

London, Sep 25 (IANS) Do infants only start to crawl once they are able to see impending danger? Their ability to see whether an object is approaching on a direct collision course ...

London, Sep 25 (IANS) Researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen by observing and analysing the pattern of brain activity. These findings confirm the notion that ...

Washington, Sep 25 (ANI): Researchers can now tell what number a person has just seen or how many dots he or she has been presented with, by a careful observation and analysis ...

Washington, September 25 (ANI): Infants' abilities to see whether an object is nearing them, and to judge when it is likely to collide, develops around the time they become more mobile, according ...

Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) Scary music sounds more scary with eyes shut, a new study has found. The simple act of voluntarily closing one's eyes instead of listening to music and sounds in ...

Washington, Sep 16 (ANI): Ever wondered how some people successfully maintain a significant weight loss, while others tend to regain the weight? Well, researchers at The Miriam Hospital attribute such tendencies to ...

Washington, September 16 (ANI): Scary music sounds even scarier with the listener's eyes shut, say Tel Aviv University researchers in Israel. This finding attains significance as it suggests that music therapy may ...

London, Sep 15 (IANS) Researchers in Italy have discovered that both the left and the right hemisphere of the brain are used to understand idioms. Alice Proverbio from the University of Milano-Bicocca ...

Washington, Sep 15 (ANI): While many people tend to use idioms very frequently and easily, Italian researchers have found that when it comes to understanding them, humans have to use both sides ...

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): A new research by UC Irvine neuroscientists suggests that memories exist even when forgotten. With the help of advanced brain imaging techniques, the study's scientists discovered that a person's ...

Washington, Sep 10 (ANI): By tracking patterns of eye movements, scientists can now get information about stored memories even when a person is unable or unwilling to report what they remember. A ...