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Can your ‘brain fingerprint’ reveal how smart you are?
This image shows the functional connections in the brain that tend to be most discriminating of individuals. Many of them are between the frontal and parietal lobes, which are involved in complex...
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Why you sleep lousy on vacation
People keep half of their brain online when sleeping in a new place, according to a new study from Brown University. Photo by Superstock The first night in a new place often feels lousy, and...
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A new atlas maps word meanings in the brain
This gif shows a spinning 3D view of one person’s cerebral cortex. The color of each voxel indicates its semantic selectivity, or which category of words it is selective for. For example, green voxels...
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The drug-like effect of screen time on the teenage brain
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But, first, a new report looks at how digital devices are taking a toll on kids and families. The report issued yesterday by Common Sense Media found...
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New technique sees brain gene activity in living color
Photo by H.-Y. Wey/Science Translational Medicine, courtesy of STAT Don’t let the pretty tangerine and lemon-yellow glow in the brain pictures fool you. If its inventors are right, an elegant new...
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Inside the extraordinary nose of a search-and-rescue dog
Zinca of the California Rescue Dog Association takes the scent from her handler Shay Cook. Photo by Roddy Blelloch The blizzard arrived in Alpine Meadows without warning. Hours earlier, before a half...
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Your devices are probably ruining your productivity. Here’s why
The habit of multitasking could lower your score on an IQ test and cause other cognitive deficits. Photo by trailfan I’ll admit it. I even take my phone with me to fire off a few texts when I go to the...
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Telling a lie makes way for the brain to keep lying
Anecdotal reports of dishonesty escalating over time are common, so a team of researchers from University College London and Duke University decided to investigate. Photo by Bits and Splits/via Adobe...
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Column: Growing up, I didn’t know my mother had a lobotomy
Illustration by Eros Dervishi/STAT Growing up, I didn’t know what was wrong with my mother. I was 25, maybe 26, when I learned she had a lobotomy. I am still trying to make sense of it. My mother had...
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Why an LSD high lasts for so long
A new discovery of how LSD changes a protein’s structure may explain why the drug is so powerful, and why its trips are so long and strange. Illustration by agsandrew/via Adobe One drop of LSD can...
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Why a baby’s first touch may set their sense of the world
For newborn babies, human touch may be a brain booster. Photo by Sally Anscombe/via Getty Images Relative to other primates, human children enter the world underdeveloped, namely when it comes to our...
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Even moderate drinking may expedite brain decline
VImbibing just a handful of beers a week is associated with long-term changes to a person’s brain, a new study finds — although the functional meaning of these changes is unclear. Photo by Michael...
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This human protein may unfurl toxic tangles in Alzheimer’s disease
Gene therapy that increases the levels of an enzyme called CyP40 can reduce toxic tangles of tau protein in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease (right panel versus control condition in left panel)....
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Cunning ravens can plan ahead, study shows
The ability to consciously plan for the future has long been thought to be uniquely human. Now, new research from Sweden has found ravens can also think ahead. Photo by Jesus/via Adobe The ability to...
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Mayweather will beat McGregor, neuroscience predicts
Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (L) of the U.S. and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor of Ireland face off during their official weigh-in at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on...
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