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The Default Network: Your Mind, on Its Own Time
From The Dana Foundation: Studies about the brain usually focus on neural activity during the completion of a specific task—remembering a series of words, for example. But over the last 20 years, researchers have been interes...
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Seizing an Opportunity: Broader Definitions of Epilepsy May Lead to Better Treatments
From The Dana Foundation: There is not just one type of epilepsy. While some forms of the disease are characterized by convulsive seizures, others involve seizures that are barely noticeable. Seizures can occur for many reasons...
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Could an Experimental Memory Drug Put an End to “Senior Moments”?
From: Discover Magazine Online: A new drug seems to be able to reverse normal age-related memory decline in old mice–like a face-lift for neurons, bringing them back to their younger days. The results of the experimental trea...
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Northern Exposure
Bringing experiential exercises into science classes can enliven the class, provide a personal growing experience for the students, as well as inspire some original thinking.
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Wired for Hunger: The Brain and Obesity
From the Dana Foundation:For most of human history, food was not readily available; storing energy helped ensure survival. Humans thus evolved to eat whenever food is at hand-a tendency that in the modern world may contribute t...
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Learning, Arts, and the Brain: the Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition
From the Dana Foundation: The Dana Foundation released at a news conference on March 4, Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a three-year study at seven universities, which finds strong links between arts education and cognitive deve...
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The Default Mode Network and Self-Referential Processes in Depression
In a recent study, Sheline and colleagues examined whether patients with major depression were impaired in their ability to regulate the activity of the default mode network, which is characterized by self-referential functions...
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Hyperactivity and Hyperconnectivity of the Default Network in Schizophrenia and in First-degree Relatives of Persons with Schizophrenia
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, Heidi W. Thermenos, Snezana Milanovic, Ming T. Tsuang, Stephen V. Faraone, Robert W. McCarley, Martha E. Shenton, Alan I. Green, Alfonso Nieto-Castanon, Peter LaViolette, Joanne Wojcik, John D. E. Gabr...
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The Decider
Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula. From ScienceNews: At the end of The Matrix trilogy, Neo and Agent Smith are engaged in one final, interminab...
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Connectomics: Tracing the Wires of the Brain
From The Dana Foundation: Scientists working with rapidly advancing computer technology and electron microscopes hope one day to map the billions of neuronal connections in the brain. The resulting map, or “connectome,&#...