Memory and Perception News

Repeated Brain Injuries Up Soldiers’ Suicide Risk

May 19th, 2013
Repeated Brain Injuries Ups Soldiers' Suicide Risk Soldiers who suffer more than one mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) face a significantly higher risk of suicide, according to a new study. Researchers from the ...

Rat Study Shows How Brain Rewires Itself After Injury

May 18th, 2013
Rat Study Shows Brain Rewires Itself After Injury When the brain's primary learning center is damaged, new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, a ...

Brain Links Common Emotions to Colors

May 17th, 2013
Brain Links Common Emotions to Colors Emerging research discovers an association between how music makes us feel and colors. That is, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the ...

Personality Changes Associated with Weight Gain

May 16th, 2013
Personality Changes Associated with Weight Gain A new study looks at the relationship between fluctuations in body weight and personality traits. Florida State University researchers discovered people who gain weight are ...

Flu While Pregnant May Quadruple a Child’s Risk of Bipolar

May 15th, 2013
Flu While Pregnant May Quadruple a Child’s Risk of BipolarA new study funded by the National Institutes of Health discovers a pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu may have extreme mental health ...

A New Name for Schizophrenia?

May 12th, 2013
A New Name for 'Schizophrenia?'Has the term “schizophrenia” become outdated? Some experts are beginning to think so.  For several decades now, “schizophrenia” has been the word used to describe a condition with a specific type ...

Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Involved in Emotional Self-Control

May 11th, 2013
Researchers Pinpoint Area of the Brain Responsible for Emotional Self-Control Different areas of the brain are activated when we choose to suppress an emotion, compared to when we are instructed to suppress ...

Memory Problems in Seniors Tied to Changing Way Events are Perceived

May 10th, 2013
Memory Problems in Seniors Tied to Changing Way Events are Perceived Forgetfulness as we get older may be due to the changing way we perceive events as we age, according to ...

Children with Autism Hypersensitive to Motion

May 9th, 2013
Children with Autism Hypersensitive to MotionChildren with autism can detect simple movements twice as fast as typically developing children, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide insight into the workings behind the ...

Bonding with Avatar May Alter Perception of Virtual Reality

May 6th, 2013
Bonding with Avatar May Alter Perception of Virtual RealityWhen individuals create their own avatar and modify it, the difficult situations faced by their alter egos may influence the perception of the virtual ...