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• Researchers open 'Golden Window' in deep brain imaging

  11-11-2015 23:21
  The neuroscience community is saluting the creation of a 'Golden Window' for deep brain imaging. This is a first for brain imaging, explain the authors of a new report on the topic.
  
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• Self-calibration enhances BrainGate ease, reliability

  11-11-2015 23:07
  Innovations in the decoders of the investigational BrainGate brain-computer interface now allow the system to recalibrate itself. Users can work with BrainGate for longer sessions without interruptions for recalibration by technical staff.
  
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• Brain scans may help predict recovery from coma

  11-11-2015 23:07
  Brain scans of people in a coma may help predict who will regain consciousness, according to a study. The study looked at connections between areas of the brain that play a role in regulating consciousness.
  
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• A network of artificial neurons learns to use human language

  11-11-2015 23:07
  A group of researchers has developed a cognitive model, made up of two million interconnected artificial neurons, able to learn to communicate using human language starting from a state of 'tabula rasa', only through communication with a human interlocutor. This research sheds light on the neural processes that underlie the development of language.
  
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• Men with Alzheimer's gene at risk of brain bleeding, study finds

  11-11-2015 22:54
  Additional evidence that Alzheimer's disease is unique to humans has been provided through recent research. This study also marks the latest study to focus on the Alzheimer's disease gene, ApoE4, and its different effects on women and men.
  
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• Scientists unravel brain circuits involved in cravings

  11-11-2015 20:32
  Researchers studying rats have discovered that activation of designer neural receptors can suppress cravings in a brain region involved in triggering those cravings. The study is the first to systematically show how designer brain receptors and designer drugs work together to change how cues for food stimulate motivation.
  
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• Social media offers neuroscientists a treasure trove of research material

  11-11-2015 20:31
  Because social media is used so pervasively in modern society to tap into people's behaviors and thoughts, neuroscientists are finding Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to be very useful tools in a broad range of research areas. A review describes some of the approaches that neuroscientists can use to gain valuable insights from social media and highlights some of the questions that might be answered by social media-based studies.
  
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• Is fat stigma making us miserable?

  11-11-2015 18:57 via well.blogs.nytimes.com
  Teasing, judgment and unsolicited advice directed at overweight people can cause the greatest psychological harm.
  
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• Study shows why 4-year-olds don't thrive in Head Start classes

  11-11-2015 17:00
  
  Most Head Start classrooms serve children of mixed ages and that hurts the academic growth of older children, a new national study suggests.
  
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• Higher suicide risk for those whose parents die when they are young

  11-11-2015 17:00
  
  If a parent dies of suicide, the offspring have a greater risk of committing suicide later; a new study shows that even if the parent died of other causes, the risk is also high.
  
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• Virginia Tech shooting has lessons for strengthening college mental health services

  11-11-2015 16:00
  
  As the nation reels from another mass shooting on a college campus, analysis of the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech University highlights the need for "comprehensive and coordinated mental health...
  
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• Treating PTSD: psychologists look to the fear-reduction effects of exercise

  11-11-2015 15:36
  
  Research has found that two weeks of three exercise sessions reduced fear in bodily sensations the same as 12 weekly therapy sessions. More study is needed, but doctors are cautiously optimistic about its applicationAmerican psychologists are hoping to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a recommendation so well-worn by family physicians, it almost seems mundane: exercise.The nascent field of research has found reason to hope that physical activity can improve outcomes
  
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• Portrait Health Centers Opens New Location in Gurnee, IL

  11-11-2015 09:00 via pr.com
  Portrait Health Centers has opened its newest location in Gurnee, Illinois. Located at 1790 Nations Drive, Suite 214, Gurnee, IL 60031, the counseling and nutrition health center specializes in diagnosing and treating depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorders, learning differences, eating disorders and nutritional needs.Portrait Health Centers are multi-specialty clinics that employ the most cutting-edge and [PR.com]
  
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• Changes in humor may be early indicator for dementia

  11-11-2015 09:00
  
  Changes in humor - particularly development of a darker sense of humor - may occur at least 9 years before onset of frontotemporal dementia or Alzheimer's, a new study finds.
  
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• Leaves turning fiery like metal blades in a forge

  11-11-2015 06:29
  
  Wenlock Edge, Shropshire Autumn’s falling leaves are full of meaning: leaving and loss, mortality and decaySweet chestnut leaves reddened against the sky before the weather came: a moment of fire and glass before they flew. The long, saw-edged, leaves of the sweet or Spanish chestnut, naturalised in Britain since the iron age, had all the autumn colours in them.Some were still green, but the cells where the leaf stalk attached to the branch were forming a dam, blocking the flow of sap and
  
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