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Check out "Dyslexie," a new font that helps dyslexics read with ease [Neuroscience]
The National Institutes of Health estimate that one out of every five persons in the US suffers from dyslexia, a brain-based learning disability that can make it frustratingly difficult to read. One way people have tried combatting the symptoms of dysl… Continue reading
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Check out "Dyslexie," a new font that helps dyslexics read with ease [Neuroscience]
The National Institutes of Health estimate that one out of every five persons in the US suffers from dyslexia, a brain-based learning disability that can make it frustratingly difficult to read. One way people have tried combatting the symptoms of dysl… Continue reading
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Why are most people right-handed? [Evolution]
It seems like such a simple question, but it’s actually one of the most biggest mysteries in all of science. Is it because of how our brains are organized, how ancient humans gripped tools, or is it simple anti-lefty prejudice?
Nobody knows for sure, … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, Brain, evolution, handedness, Human evolution, Left-Handedness, neanderthal, Neuroscience, primate, Right-Handedness, science, syndicated, Top
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Why are most people right-handed? [Evolution]
It seems like such a simple question, but it’s actually one of the most biggest mysteries in all of science. Is it because of how our brains are organized, how ancient humans gripped tools, or is it simple anti-lefty prejudice?
Nobody knows for sure, … Continue reading
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This is what schizophrenia looks like at the molecular level [Neuroscience]
What you’re looking at are neurons grown from a schizophrenic person. An incredible study, published today in Nature, reveals how scientists grew schizophrenic brain cells to understand the inner workings of this still-mysterious neurological disorder… Continue reading
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We can reverse the aging process in bees’ brains. Could humans be next? [Neuroscience]
Bees can become mentally young again with just a few simple alterations to their otherwise fixed routines. Because the brains of bees are surprisingly like our own, this trick could help fight dementia and keep human minds young and flexible.
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How an iron rod to the skull changed neuroscience forever [Neuroscience]
On September 13, 1848, an accidental explosion drove a meter-long iron rod through the skull of Vermont railway worker Phineas Gage. Incredibly, Gage survived, but the lingering side-effects provided science its first clues about how the brain affects … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, brain injury, Epilepsy, Frontal lobe, History of science, Injury, Neuroscience, Phineas Gage, science, syndicated
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Science reveals the shocking, mind-warping reason why people grunt during sex [Sexy Science]
Scientists must never be afraid to ask any question and to seek any truth, no matter how silly it might seem. Case in point: a 2003 paper from the journal Mad Med Hypotheses, in which four brave souls from the Medical School in Hanover, Germany ponder … Continue reading
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PICKED: The Belief Instinct, The Science of Spirituality
We’re deeply fascinated by how the human mind makes sense of the world, and religion is one of the primary sensemaking mechanisms humanity has created to explain reality. On the heels of our recent explorations of the relationship between science and… Continue reading
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Take the ultimate intelligence test [Brains]
You might think it’s obvious that one person is smarter than another. But there are few more controversial areas of science than the study of intelligence and, in reality, there’s not even agreement among researchers about what this word means.
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New evidence that Alzheimer’s disease is infectious [Brains]
Alzheimer’s disease is caused in part by a build-up of protein debris in the brain. Scientists already knew that this protein debris, called amyloid peptides, is infectious. But now it turns out that it’s easier to catch than they thought.
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The Importance Of Being Idle
Does daydreaming have a purpose? Neuroscientists have recently become enraptured with the workings of the brain at idle moments. Referred to as “default mode network,” letting the mind wander is in fact a busy, critical state that is the key to mai… Continue reading