Citation — to the upstart paper Gordon Parker, Acta is a four-letter word, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 126(6): 476–478 (December 2012) Citation — to the long-standing paper George A. Miller, The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information, Psychology Review 63(2): 81-97, doi: 10.1037/h0043158 (March 1956) Citation — [...]
Categories: Neuroscience,Psychiatry,Psychology,Science,Science Journalism
Tagged: Acta is a four-letter word, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, brain, chunk, four, George A. Miller, Gordon Parker, information, magical number, seven, short-term memory, storage capacity, University of New South Wales
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- 28 November 2012 – 10:11
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- By BrainiYak
Citation — to study Gaëlle Desbordes, Lobsang T. Negi, Thaddeus W. W. Pace, B. Alan Wallace, Charles L. Raison, and Eric L. Schwartz, Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6: 292, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00292 (01 November 2012) Citation — to [...]
Categories: Medicine,Psychology,Public Health
Tagged: activation, amygdala, arousal, B. Alan Wallace, brain, Charles L. Raison, depression, Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation, emotion, emotional processing, Eric L. Schwartz, Gaëlle Desbordes, habituation, Lobsang T. Negi, meditation, mindful-attention, mindfulness, non-meditative state, Sue McGreevey, Thaddeus W. W. Pace
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- 13 November 2012 – 13:24
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- By BrainiYak
Citation — to study Yangqing Xu, Shélan O’Keefe, Satoru Suzuki, and Steven L Franconeri, Visual influence on haptic torque perception, Perception 41(7): 862-870 (2012) Citation — to press release Hilary Hurd Anyaso, When Your Eyes Tell Your Hands What to Think, Northwestern University (28 September 2012) Findings From the press release: “When you pick up [...]
Categories: Neuroscience,Psychology,Science
Tagged: brain, haptic torque, Hilary Hurd Anyaso, illusion, mirrors, optical illusions, perception, Satoru Suzuki, self-deception, Shélan O’Keefe, Steven L Franconeri, visual information, Yangqing Xu
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- 28 September 2012 – 16:23
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- By BrainiYak
Citation — to study Andrew Holmes, Paul J Fitzgerald, Kathryn P MacPherson, Lauren DeBrouse, Giovanni Colacicco, Shaun M Flynn, Sophie Masneuf, Kristen E Pleil, Chia Li, Catherine A Marcinkiewcz, Thomas L Kash, Ozge Gunduz-Cinar, and Marguerite Camp, Chronic alcohol remodels prefrontal neurons and disrupts NMDAR-mediated fear extinction encoding, Nature Neuroscience, doi:10.1038/nn.3204 (02 September 2012) Citation [...]
Categories: Neuroscience,Psychiatry,Psychology,Public Health
Tagged: alcohol abuse, alcoholics, Andrew Holmes, anxiety, brain, Catherine A Marcinkiewcz, Chia Li, chronic intermittent ethanol, CIE, Giovanni Colacicco, heavy drinking, Kathryn P MacPherson, Kristen E Pleil, Lauren DeBrouse, Marguerite Camp, medical prefrontal cortex, mice, mPFC, NMDA, NMDA GluN1 receptors, NMDAR-mediated fear extinction, Ozge Gunduz-Cinar, Paul J Fitzgerald, post-traumatic stress disorder, prefrontal cortex, prefrontal neurons, PTSD, rewiring, Shaun M Flynn, Sophie Masneuf, Thomas L Kash
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- 4 September 2012 – 15:08
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- By BrainiYak
Citation — to the study Timothy T. Brown, Joshua M. Kuperman, Yoonho Chung, Matthew Erhart, Connor McCabe, Donald J. Hagler, Vijay K. Venkatraman, Natacha Akshoomoff, David G. Amaral, Cinnamon S. Bloss, B.J. Casey, Linda Chang, Thomas M. Ernst, Jean A. Frazier, Jeffrey R. Gruen, Walter E. Kaufmann, Tal Kenet, David N. Kennedy, Sarah S. Murray, [...]
Categories: Medicine,Neuroscience,Science,Science Journalism
Tagged: Anders M. DaleSee, B.J. Casey, brain, brain development, brain scans, children, Cinnamon S. Bloss, composite metric morphology, Connor McCabe, cross-validated nonlinear modeling, David G. Amaral, David N. Kennedy, development, Donald J. Hagler, Elizabeth R. Sowell, Jean A. Frazier, Jeffrey R. Gruen, Joshua M. Kuperman, Linda Chang, Matthew Erhart, maturation, multimodal MRI, multisite MRI, Natacha Akshoomoff, Neuroanatomical Assessment of Biological Maturity, Sarah S. Murray, Tal Kenet, Terry L. Jernigan, Thomas M. Ernst, Timothy T. Brown, Vijay K. Venkatraman, Walter E. Kaufmann, Yoonho Chung
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- 16 August 2012 – 18:43
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- By BrainiYak
Citation — to study David T. Jones, Prashanthi Vemuri, Matthew C. Murphy, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Mary M. Machulda, Scott A. Przybelski, Brian E. Gregg, Kejal Kantarci, David S. Knopman, Bradley F. Boeve, Ronald C. Petersen, and Clifford R. Jack Jr., Non-Stationarity in the “Resting Brain’s” Modular Architecture, PLoS ONE 7(6): e39731, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039731 [...]
Categories: Medicine,Neuroscience
Tagged: Alzheimer's dementia, Bradley F. Boeve, brain, Brian E. Gregg, Brian Kilen, Clifford R. Jack Jr., David S. Knopman, David T. Jones, ICNs, intrinsic connectivity networks, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Kejal Kantarci, Mary M. Machulda, Matthew C. Murphy, Matthew L. Senjem, Mayo Clinic, modular architecture, non-stationarity, Prashanthi Vemuri, resting brain's, Ronald C. Petersen, Scott A. Przybelski
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- 16 July 2012 – 12:15
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- By BrainiYak
Knowing as little as we do about the intricacies of brain function, we are reduced to looking at gross correlations for insights into the human behavior that is allegedly based on it A comparison of 50 stimulant drug abusers, their 50 non-drug abusing siblings, and 50 “normals” indicated that 100 siblings all exhibited enlarged amydalas [...]
Categories: Psychology,Public Health,Science
Tagged: Abigail J Turton, addiction, amygdala, basal ganglia, brain, cortical connectivity, dorsal striatum, drug abuse, drug abuser, Edward T. Bullmore, gray matter, Guy B. Williams, inferior frontal gyrus, Karen D. Ersche, limbic system, limbic-striatal, medial temporal lobe, P. Simon Jones, predisposition, putamen, siblings, stimulant, stop-signal task, Trevor W. Robbins, white matter
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- 26 February 2012 – 11:27
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- By BrainiYak
Getting “dumber” as we age may be explained (in part) by changes in neuronal sodium channel function The hippocampus is heavily involved in cognition. It’s one of the first areas of the brain to show signs of damage characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease. A Pfizer-sponsored team at the University of Bristol (England) used the patch clamp [...]
Categories: Neuroscience
Tagged: age-related, aging, Andrew D. Randall, brain, Clair Booth, gating, hippocampal CA1 pyramidal, hippocampus, hypoexcitability, Jon T. Brown, mice, Na+, neuronal, Pfizer, sodium channels, University of Bristol
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- 5 February 2012 – 09:22
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- By BrainiYak
Only fifty people were examined, however Alok Jha, writing for the Guardian, noticed an interesting tidbit in the science journal, Nature, about research into the brain effects of urbanization as compared to those of rural living. Jha reported that: The brains of people living in cities operate differently from those in rural areas, according to [...]
Categories: Neuroscience,Public Health,Science
Tagged: amygdala, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, anxiety, brain, cingulate cortex, City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans, Fabian Streit, fear, Florian Lederbogen, Heike Tost, hyper-vigilance, Jens C. Pruessner, Leila Haddad, Marcella Rietschel, Michael Deuschle, Peter Kirsch, Philipp Schuch, Stefan Wüst
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- 22 June 2011 – 16:25
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- By BrainiYak
Nanoparticle enginnering is usually subject of exaggerated media optimism, but in reality nanoparticles’ first major impact is in making people literally less bright. (Or more stupid, depending on one’s view of the human condition.) Nanoparticle air pollution (probably metallic) appears to increase deposition of amyloid-beta and alpha-synuclein in the human brain. These deposits are customarily associated with Alzheimer’s and [...]
Categories: Air pollution,Medicine,Neuroscience,Public Health
Tagged: air, brain, nano, nanoparticle, pollution, traffic corridor
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- 13 June 2010 – 16:52
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- By BrainiYak