Your brain works hard to help understand your fellow person — no matter how different they may be. According to a new study from USC, even failing to possess a full complement of limbs will not stop your brain from understanding what it is like for someone else to experience pain in one of the[...]
Archive for July, 2011
21 July, 2011 08:00 § in Brain and health
People With Depression Get Stuck on Bad Thoughts, Unable to Turn Their Attention Away, Study Suggests
We all have our ups and downs — a fight with a friend, a divorce, the loss of a parent. But most of us get over it. Only some go on to develop major depression. Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for [...][...]
18 July, 2011 08:00 § in Investigación
SUMO Defeats Protein Aggregates That Typify Parkinson’s Disease
A small protein called SUMO might prevent the protein aggregations that typify Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to a new study in the July 11, 2011, issue of The Journal of Cell Biology. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet [...]
14 July, 2011 08:00 § in Cognitive Neuroscience
Beauty Is in the Medial Orbito-Frontal Cortex of the Beholder
A region at the front of the brain ‘lights up’ when we experience beauty in a piece of art or a musical excerpt, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust. The study, published July 6 in the open access journalPLoS One, suggests that the one characteristic that all works of [...]
11 July, 2011 17:05 § in Investigación
Molecular Link Between Diabetes and Schizophrenia Connects Food and Mood.
Defects in insulin function — which occur in diabetes and obesity — could directly contribute to psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this pos[...]
