
Neurons in the brain interact by sending each other chemical messages, so-called neurotransmitters. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter, which is important to restrain neural activity, preventing neurons from getting too trigger-happy and from firing too much or responding to irrelevant stimuli.
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August 23, 2016 | Categories: Mental health, Neuroscience Research | Tags: alzheimers, behavioral science, cognitive science, health, medicine, memory, neurobiology, neurology, peer reviewed, science | Leave a comment

The whole of human intelligence, right at your fingertips. Sure it might not make the layman an engineer or physicist, but if we want to learn about a particular topic the internet can give us that information. But you better hold on tight before you lose it. New research finds retweeting or otherwise sharing information creates a “cognitive overload” that interferes with learning and retaining what you’ve just seen.
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April 29, 2016 | Categories: Neuroscience Research, Technology | Tags: cognitive science, computer science, neurobiology, neurology, peer reviewed, psychology, science, social media | 2 Comments

For adults, memories tend to fade with time. But a new study has shown that there are circumstances under which the opposite is true for small children: they can remember a piece of information better days later than they can on the day they first learned it. While playing a video game that asked them to remember associations between objects, 4- and 5-year-olds who re-played the game after a two-day delay scored more than 20 percent higher than kids who re-played it later the same day.
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September 21, 2015 | Categories: Neuroscience Research, Psychology | Tags: behavioral science, cognitive science, Education, learning, neurobiology, neurology, peer reviewed, psychology, science, social science | Leave a comment

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Many years of research have shown that for students from lower-income families, standardized test scores and other measures of academic success tend to lag behind those of wealthier students. Well now a new study offers another dimension to this so-called “achievement gap”After imaging the brains of high- and low-income students, they found that the higher-income students had thicker brain cortex in areas associated with visual perception and knowledge accumulation.
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April 17, 2015 | Categories: Neuroscience Research, Psychology | Tags: cognitive science, Education, health, low income, neurobiology, neurology, occipital lobe, peer reviewed, psychological science, science, stress, temporal lobe | Leave a comment