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• Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  New research reveals how the brain appears to adapt to compensate for the effects of long-term ADHD medication, suggesting why ADHD medication is more effective short-term than it is long-term. The study, from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College London is published today in the American Journal of ...
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• Gene Regulator in Brain’s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain’s executive hub. Among key findings of the study by National ...
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• Changes to Neurons Hamper the Aging Brain

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  The good news is that most people in the developed world are living longer; the not-so-good news is that the brain often does not stay sharp in our older age. Currently, experts do not fully understood why the brain’s cognitive functions such as memory and speech decline as we age. This despite the realization that ...
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• Teen Brain Videos and Resources

  
  Science Video Resources — Authority: 92
  The teen brain is a funny place to live, with unique challenges and threats. There have been some excellent articles and resources produced recently on the subject – useful for students, teachers and parents. Carl Zimmer has a great piece on the teenage brain at Discover Magazine. Alison Gopnik has a similar piece ...
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• Obesity Reduces the Size of Your Brain

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  New research from Uppsala University shows that a specific brain region linked to appetite regulation is reduced in elderly people who are obese. Poor eating habits over a lifetime may therefore weaken brain function that helps us to control our desire to eat. The findings are published in The International Journal of ...
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• Human Nature and the Neurobiology of Conflict

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 717
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• Profit vs. Principle: The Neurobiology of Integrity

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 717
  Let your better self rest assured: Dearly held values truly are sacred, and not merely cost-benefit analyses masquerading as nobel intent, concludes a new study on the neurobiology of moral decision-making. Such values are conceived differently, and occur in very different parts of the brain, than utilitarian ...
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• A good, but short, look at the brain: Edge question

  
  Sun and Shield — Authority: 107
  Every year, Edge publishes responses to what it calls a "World Question." This years question is "2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?" I confess that I havent read all of the many responses, from various prominent people, but I did read the one from David Eagleman , a ...
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• Do you have the moral qualities of a toddler?

  
  Lion's Whiskers — Authority: 99
  Heres a fascinating piece from BigThink.com about the moral intelligence of toddlers . This is more evidence that we are hard-wired to care .
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• A First: Brain Support Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, among other nervous system diseases. “This is the first time this has been done with non-embryonic stem cells,” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Positively Handle Fear and Negativity

  
  Success thru Consciousness — Authority: 92
  We’re smarter and more creative when we’re in a positive mood , but that doesn’t mean we should ignore negative emotions. In fact, learning to skillfully experience fear and negative emotions is crucial to keeping our mood positive. In contrast, resistance to negative emotions literally backfires and makes them ...
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• Walk This Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  Just like people, some proteins have characteristic ways of “walking,” which (also like human gaits) are not so easy to describe. But now scientists have discovered the unique “drunken sailor” gait of dynein, a protein that is critical for the function of every cell in the body and whose malfunction has been ...
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• Brain Glia Cells Increase Their DNA Content to Preserve Vital Blood Brain Barrier

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  The blood-brain barrier is essential for maintaining the brain’s stable environment — preventing entry of harmful viruses and bacteria and isolating the brain’s specific hormonal and neurotransmitter activity from that in the rest of the body. In addition to nerve cells, the brain contains glia cells that ...
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• Brain Region Can Signal Early Stage Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  Early changes to the inferior frontal junction observed in early dementias A key misplaced yet again? Unable to recall a name? Forgetfulness frequently leads to anxiety: is it just a sign of age, or are these the first symptoms of the onset of Alzheimer’s disease? It has never been easy to answer this question in ...
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• Receptor for Tasting Fat Identified in Humans

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds. Our tongues apparently recognize and have an affinity for fat, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They have found that variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of [...]
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• Upsetting bio-clocks causes brain degeneration, early death

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Washington, Jan 11 (IANS) Upsetting circadian rhythms, the bio-clocks found in animals and humans, can cause brain degeneration, loss of motor function and premature death.Until this finding, it wasn’t clear which came first — whether the disruption of biological clock mechanisms was the cause or the result of ...
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• Disruption of Biological Clocks Causes Neurodegeneration, Early Death

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 113
  New research at Oregon State University provides evidence for the first time that disruption of circadian rhythms – the biological “clocks” found in many animals – can clearly cause accelerated neurodegeneration, loss of motor function and premature death. The study was published in Neurobiology of Disease and ...
  4 weeks ago

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