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Force of Hits, Not Just Number, Raises CTE Risk
By BOSTON UNIVERSITY For years, researchers studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, believed the primary cause of it was repetitive hits to the head, whether or not those hits caused...
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How Music Benefits Your Brain
By U. CHICAGO Music plays an important role in all of our lives. But listening to music or playing an instrument is more than just a creative outlet or hobby—it’s also scientifically good for us....
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How the Brain Stays Focused Despite Distraction
By KELSEY ODORCZYK – PENN In the study, published recently in Neuron, the scientists sought to illuminate the neural mechanism that helps the brain decide whether to focus visual attention on a...
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Could Brain ‘Glue’ Help People Stay Awake Without Getting Tired?
BY JUDITH VAN DONGEN-WASHINGTON STATE Little-studied brain cells known as astrocytes are major players in controlling sleep need, a new study with mice suggests. Astrocytes may someday help humans go...
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Should All Newborns Get Neurodevelopmental Disorder Screening?
By BETHANY BUSHEN-U. ROCHESTER While some experts believe early identification of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in the newborn period would provide an equitable way to flag and treat...
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‘Pink Noise’ in Deep Sleep May Benefit Heart
By PETER RÜEGG-ETH ZURICH Deep sleep is crucial for overall health. The brain recovers during this sleep stage, and the rest of the body seems to regenerate then as well. The new study, published in...
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Exercise and Socializing Keep Aging Brains Healthy
By U. ZURICH This part of the brain, the entorhinal cortex, is impaired in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, even in the early stages. Physical exercise is associated with a variety of positive...
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Former NFL Player Brains Show Lasting Impact of Hits to the Head
By KRISTEN CROCKER-JOHNS HOPKINS In a new study using brain scans of former NFL athletes, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found high levels of a repair protein present long after a...
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Why Do We Sleep? Researchers Have a Theory
By CHRIS WOOLSTON-WASHINGTON U. IN ST. LOUIS Sleep is a fundamental need, just like food or water. “You’ll die without it,” says Keith Hengen, an assistant professor of biology at Washington...
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Burnt Out Immune Cells May Drive Alzheimer’s Disease
By Katherine Fenz-Rockefeller Mice reach the twilight of their lives at around age two, the rough equivalent of 80 in human years. And when researchers introduce specific mutations into mice and then...
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People With Ptsd Have Smaller Cerebellums
By DAN VAHABA-DUKE The cerebellum, a part of the brain well known for helping to coordinate movement and balance, can influence emotion and memory, which post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...
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Too Much or Too Little Sleep Tied to Risky Changes in the Brain
BY YALE Sleeping too much or too little is associated with changes in the brain that are known to precede and increase the risk of stroke and dementia later in life, a new study suggests. In one of...
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Ultrasound Aimed at the Brain Can Relieve Pain
BY MATT CHITTUM – VIRGINIA TECH Narrowly focused soundwaves aimed at an area of the brain called the insula reduced both the perception of pain and the body’s reaction to it, according to a new...
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Researchers Get Closer to Diagnosing CTE in Living Patients
By GINA DIGRAVIO-BOSTON Years of research have shown that athletes who play high-contact sports—like tackle football and soccer—and endure frequent hits to the head risk developing chronic traumatic...
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How Your Brain Filters Out Distractions to Focus
BY BROWN UNIVERSITY A new study illustrates how parts of the brain need to work together to focus on important information while filtering out distractions. Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes...
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The Longer a Task Takes, the More Your Mind Wanders
BY JENNY HUDAK-U. MIAMI New research shows that a person’s ability to sustain their attention while performing a task decreases over time. The longer a person spends on a task, the more their mind...
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Monkeys Shed Light on How Visual Cues Guide Cooperation
By SILVIA CERNEA CLARK-RICE Eye contact and body language are critical in social interaction, but exactly how the brain uses this information in order to inform behavior in real time is not well...
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Beta Waves in the Brain Can Predict Stuttering in Advance
By Jade McClain-NYU Beta waves are brain waves associated with thought, actions, and reactions; for example, beta waves affect how you would react to a cyclist speeding toward you as you cross the...
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Sounds Sleeping Babies Hear Can Boost Language Development
By CARRIE STETLER-RUTGERS Although it’s well-known that music and speech boost babies’ ability to learn, there’s robust evidence that the developing brain analyzes certain brief auditory cues in an...
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Team Unravels How Brain Chemicals Shape Social Decisions
By JOHN PASTOR – VIRGINIA TECH The research, conducted in Parkinson’s disease patients undergoing brain surgery while awake, homed in on the brain’s substantia nigra, a crucial area associated with...
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