Playful Brains: Early Years Play Shapes Children’s Futures
WEBOct 2, 2023 · Play in the early years forges essential neural pathways, impacting future growth and learning. Children are biologically wired for play, and diverging from this can hinder their development. The research integrates the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, suggesting play as a means of mental health recovery for …
Why We Remember, and Forget. And What We Can Do About It
WEBFeb 3, 2023 · Sleep helps information to move from being briefly accessible to being stored in long-term ways, and it guides the transition from something we remember from a specific event, like remembering when the teacher said the boiling point of water was 212 degrees Fahrenheit, to a fact we just know. BUDSON: Sleep is important to consolidate memories ...
Neuroscience News Science Magazine - Research Articles
WEBNeuroscience News is an independent open access science magazine. Since 2001, we have featured neuroscience research news from labs, universities, hospitals and news departments around the world. Topics include brain research, AI, psychology, neuroscience, mental health and neurotech.
How Does the Brain Create Our Perception of Reality?
WEBNov 3, 2021 · New findings from studies in both people and animals are revealing clues about how sensory information and cognitive processes interact in the brain to produce our perception of the world. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2021, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world’s largest source of …
A Variety of Factors Beyond Age Influence Reaction Time
WEBJul 13, 2021 · Source: TGen. Reaction time, as a measure of brain health, is influenced by aging and a variety of other factors, including education, sex, smoking, dizziness, the number of daily medications, family medical history, and even whether one favors using their right or left hand. In a study published in Nature Aging and Mechanisms of Disease ...
Decoding Brain Signals: Study Shines Light on Neural Pathways
WEBNov 3, 2023 · Now, however, a team of neuroscientists and physicists at Princeton University are helping to shine a clarifying light on how information flows in the brain by studying, of all things, the brain of a very small but ubiquitous worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans. The details of the experiment are chronicled in a …
What Happens in Our Brain When We Die? - Neuroscience News
WEBFeb 22, 2022 · Findings ‘challenge our understanding of when exactly life ends’. “We measured 900 seconds of brain activity around the time of death and set a specific focus to investigate what happened in the 30 seconds before and after the heart stopped beating,” said Dr Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, US, who organised ...
Your brain on sugar: What the science actually says
WEBNov 16, 2019 · Your body runs on sugar — glucose to be precise. Glucose comes from the Greek word glukos which means sweet. Glucose fuels the cells that make up our body — including brain cells (neurons). Dopamine “hits” from eating sugar. On an evolutionary basis, our primitive ancestors were scavengers. Sugary foods are excellent sources of …
Exactly How Many Senses Do We Really Have? - Neuroscience News
WEBJan 19, 2023 · Summary: Do people really have a “sixth sense”?Researchers evaluate how intuition and visions, often induced, are part of our conscious experience. Source: USC While the notion that people have five basic human senses is often considered a universal truth and can be traced back to Aristotle’s “De Anima” (“On the Soul”), many philosophers and neuroscientists are now debating ...
Exercise and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Fitness Explored
WEBMay 13, 2023 · Exercise also helps manage and reduce stress, increasing concentrations of norepinephrine and endorphins, chemicals that moderate the brain’s response to stress and induce feelings of happiness. The benefits of fitness extend beyond the brain. Regular physical activity reduces inflammation in the body, …