The virtual-reality therapy is usually used for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients increasingly. This therapy makes the patient confront their trauma virtually and overcome from the trauma.
Even though the quarter of patient can recover from own jury, these method which makes the patient face to their trauma also can restore patients’ memory.
It indicates that the virtual-reality therapy is not always good therapy for PTSD patients.
Read more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-does-virtual-reality-therapy-fo
In this news, the researchers were trying to find out how the brain works under the situation of supermarket bargains.
The study have focused on the rational and emotional workings of the brain while shopping.
As the result, the brain can work logically or rationally for around 40 min. after beginning weekly shop.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-24995031
The team including the economist, neuroscientist, psychologist will conduct the experiment to explore how the economic stress affect the brain of fatus. In this article, previous study and how to divide into two groups (experimental group and control group).
If we have more friends or more sociable character, we have more bigger and better connection in brain. This finding comes from Oxford University.
Especially there are strong connection between the various brain regions related the sociability including anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).
Please find the more detailed information in the following link:
http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2013/11/monkeys-use-minds-control-avatar-arms
The protein called PPARalpha is shared in both the liver and the hippocampus.
The liver uses this protein to burn the abdominal fat, while the hippocampus uses this to process memory. If the there is depleted PPARalpha in the liver, this protein is brought to burn belly fat from the brain. Finally, the deficit of PPARalpha in the brain, especially hippocampus, causes the memory loss or learning problem.
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/40440-your-liver-may-be-eating-your-brain.html
The news introduces a new research study that the genius of Einstein may come from the connectivity between two hemispheres.
I have found these set of slides on the internet. He said that some kinds of know-how to spend the period of graduate school through this slides. I think it could be helpful and interesting to us.
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Consuming caffeine can disturb one’s deep sleep. And reduced deep sleep can make the brain of teenager loose because the brain of teenager is more plastic than adult.
Some researchers have revealed that over-consumption of caffeine can affect the behavior by experimenting the rats.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/caffeine-may-delay-brain-development-teenagers-1410700
Stephen Hawking recently said that brain is like a computer, so it can possibly exist alive after physical death.
Even though he said it is a long way off to realize the thought, this opinion could shake people’s belief about afterlife.
A documentary movie about his life will be released soon in UK.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/21/stephen-hawking-brain-outside-body