American scientists have found that functional connections that are needed for processing visual information about faces and places, present in the brain of infants for a few days. To do this, they followed separate areas of the visual cortex and Read more
American scientists have identified two types of schizophrenia by the structural peculiarities of the brain of patients. The first type is characterized by the usual diseases by reducing the volume of gray matter, and the second — increase of the Read more
American scientists clarified the role of the posterior parietal cortex in the pre-processing of visual stimuli. It turned out that the decrease in the activity of this part of the brain with low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation accelerates the reaction to Read more
Swiss scientists have discovered that how quickly you decide to spend some effort to receive a reward, you can determine whether the return to him depressed. For this they conducted a study involving 123 patients with depression shortly before they Read more
Scientists from the UK and Germany found that auditory and visual stimuli and focus attention on the signals of the specific modality regulate the activation of the sensory cortex of a person in different ways. For example, visual signals affect Read more
Psychologists from the US, UK and New Zealand have found that antisocial behavior has its neurobiological basis: those for whom this behavior is typical, the smaller the area of the cerebral cortex and its thickness. In particular, this applies to Read more
Before you allow in clinical practice a new drug or therapy they are tested. It is long and difficult: for example, the new drug the drug test first “in vitro” (in vitro), then in laboratory animals and then on humans. Read more
Anyone who at least once did not sleep for a long time, knows what this means: there is lethargy, reduced attention, a bad mood, a strong physical fatigue. Available stimulants like caffeine stops working (this is the mechanism of action Read more