Category Archives: Brain

Yoga may boost your brain power

Posted on January 25, 2022 by RichardB

Yogis may be enjoying a surprising benefit when they unroll their mats and strike a pose. A new study finds that just 20 minutes of hatha yoga stimulates brain function. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign enlisted 30 … Continue reading →

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Glutamate levels in the brain may be linked to alcohol craving

Posted on August 3, 2021 by RichardB

Craving consists of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral elements related to a desire to drink alcohol, and can be experienced during intoxication, withdrawal, and/or prior to relapse. Different types of craving are hypothesized to be associated with different neurotransmitter systems. For … Continue reading →

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Study brain can be trained in compassion

Posted on September 17, 2020 by RichardB

Researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion. In the study, … Continue reading →

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Drugs and the Brain

Posted on August 25, 2020 by RichardB

The human brain is the most complex organ in the body. This three-pound mass of gray and white matter sits at the center of all human activity—you need it to drive a car, to enjoy a meal, to breathe, to … Continue reading →

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3 Dietary Interventions that Can Help Children with ADHD

Posted on July 30, 2020 by RichardB

Are dietary inter­ven­tions effec­tive for treat­ing ADHD? For many par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als, try­ing to parse through the dif­fer­ent claims about the impact of diet on ADHD has been chal­leng­ing and confusing. At this point, sub­stan­tial research on how dietary inter­ven­tions … Continue reading →

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Meditation Reduces Anxiety

Posted on July 16, 2020 by RichardB

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have identified the brain functions involved in how meditation reduces anxiety. The team wrote in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience about how they studied 15 healthy volunteers with normal levels of … Continue reading →

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Brain System For Emotional Self-Control

Posted on July 9, 2020 by RichardB

Different brain areas are activated when we choose to suppress an emotion, compared to when we are instructed to inhibit an emotion, according a new study from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Ghent University. In this study, published … Continue reading →

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