Researchers have studied whether aerobic exercise could prevent damage from occurring in long-time drinkers.They haven’t known that exercise causes white matter to improve among heavy drinkers yet. But It can be said that combined benefits of aerobic exercise suggest it could be helpful, though the link between improving white matter and exercise isn’t confirmed.
Researchers have found that the people who listened their favorite song usually have brain especially activated the nucleus accumbens. It represented that we are willing to pay for new song by listening to only 30-second of song.
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This study has shown that reoffenders have lower reactivity in anterior cingulate cortex(ACC). It suggests that ACC can be a tool for predicting reoffender as well as provide a path forward for steering offenders into more effective targeted therapies to reduce the risk of future criminal activity.
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Researchers have revealed that consuming alcohol causes a decresing level of connectivity between the supplementary motor area, primary visual, and motor area. This result can suggest that alcohol consumption affects complex interactions between different brain areas.
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A new research project has people seeing ghosts. By flashing an image on a screen in synch with signal rhythms in certain brain areas, scientists are making people hallucinate the image even after it’s disappeared.
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Diagnosis for the Alzheimer’s disease continues to rely primarily on neuropsychological tests which can only detect the disease after clinical symptoms begin. In a supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, investigators report on the development of imaging-based biomarkers that will have an impact on diagnosis before the disease process is set in motion.
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A common condition called leukoaraiosis, once considered a harmless part of the aging process like gray hair, is actually a disease that alters brain function in the elderly, according to a new study
Measuring humman intelligence may be controversial and oh-so-very-tricky to do. A new study, however, demonstrates a more rigorous way to see and measure differences in intelligence between individuals.
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