Deep brain stimulation leads to ‘effortless’ smoking cessation, weight loss
September 22nd, 2010 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 22 (ANI): A new case report revealed that electrical stimulation of the brain in a patient with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) led to some unanticipated benefits-"effortless" smoking cessation and weight ... Read more...
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Brain area that controls impulsive behaviour located
September 22nd, 2010 - 12:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 22 (ANI): Scientists have nailed down the area of the brain that controls impulsive behaviour and say that it can be controlled with training.A Queen's University research team led Scott ... Read more...
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New neurological deficit behind lazy eye identified
September 11th, 2010 - 4:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 11 (ANI): Scientists have apparently identified a new neurological deficit behind amblyopia, or 'lazy eye'.Their findings shed additional light on how amblyopia results from disrupted links between the brain and ... Read more...
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Playing down pain actually helps lessen its intensity
August 25th, 2010 - 3:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 25 (ANI): Playing down the level of pain that comes with a surgical procedure could actually make patients feel less pain, found a study.The researchers said that if doctors underplay ... Read more...
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Playing down pain won’t make patients feel a thing
August 25th, 2010 - 3:26 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 25 (ANI): Playing down the level of pain that comes with a surgical procedure could actually make patients feel less pain, found a study.The researchers said that if doctors underplay ... Read more...
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How poker players keep their heads in the game
August 20th, 2010 - 4:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 20 (ANI): Be it sportsmen, businessmen in high-stakes world or poker players, there are those who have the uncanny ability to win when there's money on the table.A new study ... Read more...
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Pill endows women with larger brains, savviness
August 18th, 2010 - 12:32 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 18 (IANS) Taking a contraceptive pill makes woman brainier and more savvy, besides boosting their conversational skills.
Differences in brain structure of both the genders have been subjected to many ... Read more...
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11 hrs of meditation may boost brain function
August 17th, 2010 - 3:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 17 (ANI): Just 11 hours of learning a meditation technique provokes positive structural changes in brain connectivity by boosting efficiency in a part that helps a person regulate behaviour in ... Read more...
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Stimulating fingers, lips and face could prevent strokes
July 14th, 2010 - 4:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 14 (ANI): A good massage, listening to a song or otherwise stimulating the right nerve endings could prevent strokes, if a discovery in rats could be translated in humans, revealed ... Read more...
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How fly manages to perceive motion in fractions of a second
July 13th, 2010 - 3:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 13 (ANI): For the first time, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have successfully established the necessary technical conditions for decoding the underlying mechanisms of how the fly ... Read more...
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Energy drinks start their kick as soon as they touch your tongue
April 30th, 2010 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 30 (ANI): Energy drinks starting their "kick work" as soon as they touch your tongue, concludes a new study.In the study, Nicholas Gant at the University of Auckland in New ... Read more...
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Magnetic compass can change a person’s morality
March 31st, 2010 - 2:46 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Mar 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Its astonishing but very true, that the magnetic fields of a compass can affect the morality of a person, according to the neuroscientists at MIT. "To ... Read more...
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Why we get temporarily blinded from surprises
March 12th, 2010 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 12 (ANI): While we can manage to read the newspaper in a bus with loud music, a sudden fire alarm can easily snatch away our attention from the paper to ... Read more...
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How does brain catch up with sound of silence?
February 11th, 2010 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 11 (IANS) Researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses (nerve junctions) in a brain area that deals with turning off sound when required.
Such regulation is vital for ... Read more...
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Brain area responsible for fear of losing money discovered
February 9th, 2010 - 12:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI): Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have identified the brain area responsible for fear of losing money-the amygdala.The researchers have described the finding ... Read more...
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Brain’s codes for noun meanings deciphered
January 13th, 2010 - 2:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): Combining brain imaging and machine learning techniques, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have determined how the brain deciphers meanings of nouns.Neuroscientists Marcel Just and Vladimir Cherkassky and computer ... Read more...
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Scientists decode how brain records thought-word connect
January 13th, 2010 - 2:08 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) Scientists have decoded how the brain records thoughts stimulated by words, paving the way for better treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
"In effect, we discovered how the brain's ... Read more...
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Now, a device that turns thoughts into sounds
January 1st, 2010 - 1:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 1 (ANI): In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has "spoken" three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by ... Read more...
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Generosity comes naturally to kind-hearted people
December 22nd, 2009 - 12:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 22 (ANI): Being generous comes naturally to kind-hearted people, a new study has revealed.A research team led by Masahiko Haruno of Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan has shown that generosity ... Read more...
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How do we make sense of the written word?
December 17th, 2009 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) How do we know that certain combinations of letters make sense?
Reading and spelling are complex processes, but researchers have now identified a specific part of the brain ... Read more...
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Brain region that helps us understand written words identified
December 17th, 2009 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): Scientists from Johns Hopkins University in the USA have identified a brain region that helps us understand written language.The region called, left fusiform gyrus, which helps in rapid ... Read more...
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Paralysed man successfully controls speech synthesiser with thought
December 16th, 2009 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 16 (ANI): In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has "spoken" three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by ... Read more...
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Healthy people with brain plaques at increased Alzheimer’s risk
December 15th, 2009 - 3:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 15 (ANI): Healthy people who have an abnormal build-up of a protein in the brain linked with Alzheimer's have a higher risk of developing the disease, two new studies have ... Read more...
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Cocaine abusers can control cravings
December 1st, 2009 - 1:39 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): Cocaine abusers can control their cravings, according to researchers who suggest that new treatments aimed at strengthening inhibitory control could help prevent relapse.The study revealed that when asked ... Read more...
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Left- or right-handedness may influence body perception
November 5th, 2009 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 5 (ANI): A new study has revealed that left- and right-handed people are likely to perceive the length of their arms differently.According to researchers, there are areas in the brain ... Read more...
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Bad driver? Then blame your genes
October 29th, 2009 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS) Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study.
According to University of Irvine scientists, people with a particular gene variant performed more than ... Read more...
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Blame genetics for people with bad driving skills
October 29th, 2009 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): Next time you encounter a rash driver on road, don't go berserk and start abusing - rather blame their genes for the bad driving skills, says a new ... Read more...
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Placebo effect is all in the spine - not just the mind
October 16th, 2009 - 12:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 16 (ANI): Solving the mystery of why some people benefit from remedies that do not contain any active pain-relief ingredients, scientists have found that the placebo effect doesn't only lie ... Read more...
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Brain’s ‘alert status’ opens up new ways of treating coma: Study
September 15th, 2009 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 15 (IANS) An 'alert status' area in the brain potentially opens up new ways of treating insomnia, excessive sleepiness, reversible coma or loss of consciousness, says a new study.
Hebrew University ... Read more...
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Scientists unveil brain area involved in ‘alert status’ control
September 15th, 2009 - 11:48 am ICT by ANI
Washington, September 15 (ANI): Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have gained fresh insights into how anaesthesia and anaesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain, opening the door to possible new ... Read more...
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Possible genetic link behind schizophrenia identified
July 22nd, 2009 - 4:18 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 22 (ANI): A gene called Disc1 (Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1) may be responsible for causing Schizophrenia, according to two new studies.Led by Dr. Jill Morris and colleagues at Northwestern University's Feinberg School ... Read more...
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Brain connections that create false memories identified
July 16th, 2009 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 16 (ANI): Researchers in Spain have identified brain connections that encourage the formation of false memories.According to the study, such memories appear to be more likely in people with ... Read more...
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Why we empathise less with people of other races
July 2nd, 2009 - 2:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 1 (ANI): People often fail to empathise with strangers' pain, if they belong to a different race than their own, and now a study has revealed what underlies this tendency. ... Read more...
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Ability to imagine oneself in someone else’s shoes ‘tied to empathy’
June 24th, 2009 - 12:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 24 (ANI): The way our brain handles how we move through space-including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else's shoes-may be related to how and why we experience ... Read more...
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How our brains evoke empathy when we see others in pain
June 13th, 2009 - 2:41 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 13 (ANI): A new study has shed some light on how our brains evoke empathy when we see others in pain.Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for ... Read more...
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