Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): People tend to judge their confidence while making choices several times a day, and now researchers have uncovered the biological mechanisms behind the belief that a choice is likely to be correct.
Many studies have shown that choice certainty is closely associated with reaction time, and with ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
London, May 8 (ANI): Researchers in France have identified the place where free will resides.
Lead scientist Angela Sirigu, a neuroscientist at the CNRS Cognitive Neuroscience Centre in Bron, say that the place lies towards the back of the brain called the parietal cortex.
The finding was made when a neurosurgeon electrically ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): How the brain gives meaning to letters on a page has been a mystery for scientists. Now, a new study has tried to solve the puzzle.
Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that an area known to be important ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
London, Apr 29 (ANI): In the world's largest DNA scan for autism, US scientists have uncovered a new gene variant, called CDH10, which is highly common in children suffering from the disorder.
In partnership with 30 research institutions across the US, scientists scrutinized the activity of CDH10 and found that it ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Washington, Apr 21 (ANI): What do emotions mean and how do we retain past events in the mind? Such questions have bugged people for long. Now, scientists have found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance of experiences and how individuals form memories of them.
In the study ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Washington, Apr 18 (ANI): The human brain reacts quickly when encountering another person's physical pain, but compassion for psychological pain takes longer to register, a new study has found.
In the study, lead researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang in the University of Southern California and colleagues used functional MRI to analyse the ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Washington, Apr 18 (ANI): The human brain reacts quickly when encountering another person's physical pain, but compassion for psychological pain takes longer to register, a new study has found.
In the study, lead researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang in the University of Southern California and colleagues used functional MRI to analyse the ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Washington, April 16 (ANI): Using a drug called methamphetamine during pregnancy can cause abnormal brain development in children, says a new study.
This study is the first of its kind to examine the effects of methamphetamine use during pregnancy.
"Methamphetamine use is an increasing problem among women of childbearing age, leading ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Washington, April 14 (ANI): Muscle disorders like writer's cramp may result from abnormalities in fibres connecting different brain areas, according to a study.
Dr. Christine Delmaire, of Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire Roger ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
London, April 13 (ANI): Praying to God is like talking to a friend, according to a new study.
"It's like talking to another human. We found no evidence of anything mystical," New Scientist quoted Uffe Schjodt, of the University of Aarhus, Denmark, as saying.
For the study, Schjodt and colleagues asked volunteers ...
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