Research & Articles

Eye-Tracking Unveils Autism's Distinctive Worldview and Social Focus Shift

Researchers have discovered that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) develop distinct attentional preferences compared to typically developing children, focusing more on non-social stimuli

How Imagination Fuels Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

A new study highlights the significant role of imagination in evoking empathy and driving prosocial behavior.

Cognitive reserve is a mechanism underlying the link between openness to experience and cognitive functioning in adults

The average duration of human life has increased drastically in the past century.

Brain's 'Traffic Directors': Neurons That Keep Us Focused on Tasks

Researchers have illuminated how our brain maintains focus amidst distractions.

Stealing a Brain Hack: Exploration vs Urgency Shapes Memory and Learning

Researchers showed that when participants imagined themselves as art thieves scouting a virtual museum for a future heist, they had a better memory of the paintings they observed than those imagining...

Neuronal Boost: Lactate's Key Role in Brain Development Uncovered

The study uncovers how lactate, an exercise and metabolism byproduct, may play a vital part in brain development and neuronal differentiation.

Nature or nurture? It's all about the message

Were Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci born brilliant or did they acquire their intelligence through effort?

Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact

The minds of social species are strikingly resonant.

Guidance during play enhances children's learning and development.

Can guidance during play enhance children's learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Key Brain Activity Absent in Borderline Personality Disorder

Researchers have identified a brain region, the rostro-medial prefrontal cortex, which reacts differently to social rejection in individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

Mindfulness and relaxation techniques boost frontal theta power in the brains of athletes

The findings provide insights into how mindfulness and relaxation interventions can benefit athletes' mental well-being.

Rethinking Smart: Cognitive Enhancers May Diminish Performance in Those Without ADHD

Cognitive enhancers, often dubbed as smart drugs, might actually impair performance and productivity in neurotypical individuals.

How does your brain select words to communicate effectively?

The Amazing Story of How Your Brain Selects words to Communicate Effectively

A Role of the Parasympathetic Nervous System in Cognitive Training

Vision-based speed of processing (VSOP) training can result in broad cognitive improvements.

How to Encourage Imaginary Play (and Why it's so Important)

Imaginary play (also known as pretend play) helps kids' cognition, emotions, and promotes problem-solving and creativity. Five ideas to help encourage your child's imaginary play.

Dopamine Function and Schizophrenia

Neuroscientists discovered how vitamin D deficiency impacts the development of neurons, contributing to disorders such as schizophrenia.

Cytoelectric Coupling: Electrical Fields Fine-Tune Brain Functioning

Akin to households arranging their TV setup for optimal viewing experience, this theory could significantly enhance our understanding of the brain's inner workings.

Can Mindfulness Change Your Brain Structure

Studies have shown that regular mindfulness practice can increase the amount of grey matter in certain regions of the brain, including the hippocampus, which is involved in memory and learning.

Exercise and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Fitness Explored

The neuroscience of fitness explores how regular exercise profoundly impacts our brain and nervous system.

Scientists Discover a New Connection Between the Eyes and Touch

Micro-saccades, or tiny eye movements, can be used as an index of our ability to anticipate relevant information in the environment, independent of the information's sensory modality.

How Do Long-Lasting Memories Form in the Brain?

How do we retain vivid memories of long-ago events?

Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death

Space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding.

Brain Study Asks: Where Does All the Glucose Go?

This is the most direct and clearest evidence yet that neurons are metabolizing glucose through glycolysis and that they need this fuel to maintain normal energy levels.

Fasting May Tell the Brain To Break Down Unhealthy Molecules

Our study shows that autophagy is not only controlled in the body cells themselves, but also by the brain.

What is Visual Memory?

Visual memory is a critical factor in reading and writing.

Why Every Kindergarten and First-Grade School Day Should Begin with Inquiry and Imaginative Play

We must have a mindset shift in this country. A shift from seeing schools as buildings that children attend to understand reading, writing, math, and social sciences to schools as part of our communit...

We make thousands of unconscious decisions every day. Here's how your brain copes with that.

But how – and why – do you go from concentrating on a task to making it automatic?

What is life? Why cells and atoms haven't answered the question.

Scientists working across domains now think that understanding life requires putting a new actor on to the stage and letting it take the lead: the flow of information.

In Sync Brainwaves Predict Learning

This is the first study to show that the extent to which students' and teachers' brainwaves are in sync during real-world learning can predict how well students retain information from class.

What are the best lucid dreaming techniques?

Lucid dreaming holds a widespread appeal, but many people simply can't do it. So what do studies show are the best techniques?

Scientists Say Child's Play Helps Build A Better Brain

When it comes to brain development, time in the classroom may be less important than time on the playground.

Dopamine Levels Could Determine Whether Working Out Feels Easy or Hard

Researchers have long been trying to understand why some people find physical effort easier than others.

Brain–Gut Interactions Could Explain Sleep's Mysteries

Harvard study implies that dietary choices impact sleep quality.

Cerebral Visual Impairment - What if the Brain Cannot See?

Cortical visual impairment (CVI) is a form of visual impairment that is caused by a brain problem rather than an eye problem.

Want To Make Life Easier For Your Toddler? Get Their Screen Time In Check

A study looking at what impacts executive function in toddlers offers crystal clear guidance for parents.

These Neurons Are the Reason You Yawn When You See Others Do It, And They Could Help Us Teach Children More Creatively Too

Mirror neurons are essential for the human species. Not only do they allow us to learn by observation and imitation, but they also are essential for the development of empathy and social behaviors.

How Our Brain Uses Old Information To Make Decisions

How does the brain deal with new situations? How does it make decisions?

ADHD linked to oxygen deprivation before birth

Children who had in-utero exposure to ischemic-hypoxic conditions, situations during which the brain is deprived of oxygen, were significantly more likely to develop attention deficit hyperactivity di...

The Books You Read Really Make You Who You Are

Stories can literally transport us into the mind and body of a character.

Harsh Discipline Increases Risk of Children Developing Lasting Mental Health Problems

Children who experience harsh parenting are 1.5 times more likely to have mental health systems that are considered high-risk by age nine.

How We Experience and Remember Our Daily Surroundings

A new study uncovered the neural mechanisms behind how we process and memorize everyday events.

How the brain rewards pleasurable physical touch

Using optogenetics, neurobiologists traced a stimulating physical touch from the skin all the way to the reward center of the brain for the first time.

Visual Stimulation Changes Fluid Flow in the Brain

Researchers at Boston University, USA report that the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain is linked to waking brain activity.

Amino Acid-Starved Brains Stay Smaller Through Life

Our developing brains demand the right nutrients at the right times.

Vision Therapy for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Vision problems are a CAUSE of, not a by-product of, many autism symptoms.

How Parents' Personalities Shape Their Kids' Lives

It's a good lesson for everyone. Personalities are largely set, but behaviors can change.

For the first time scientists observe the creation of matter from light

It should be possible to create matter from pure energy, such as light.

A new take on psychoneuroimmunology

Research pointing to a circuit linking the immune system and brain connects illness, stress, mood and thought in a whole new way.

World-First Study Identifies Brain Changes Caused by High Blood Pressure

A new study has, for the first time, identified specific brain areas damaged by high blood pressure.

Understanding How the Brain's Internal Compass Works

Scientists have gained new insights into the part of the brain that gives us a sense of direction.

Oral Sensory: "Awakening" Oral Sensory Receptors for Chewers, Biters and Suckers

This article discusses oral sensory items and toys that can help children that are hyposensitive to food, textures and toys.

Too much pleasure causes pain

Happiness has been declining precipitously in the West for 30 years, despite better access to healthcare and education and decreases in poverty and violence. Groundbreaking Stanford psychiatrist and a...

Gastrointestinal issues and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are amongst the most common medical conditions that are comorbid with Autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

The importance of keeping a beat: Researchers link ability to keep a beat to reading, language skills

An activity that requires coordination of hearing and movement is likely to rely on solid and accurate communication across brain regions.

5 Ways Kids Learn to Be Codependent

How have you overcome codependency in your own life?

Cross-training in hemispatial neglect: Auditory sustained attention training ameliorates visual attention deficits

A number of studies now show that deficits in non-spatial attention influence spatial attention.

An updated review about perceptual learning as a treatment for amblyopia

Amblyopia is the most prevalent cause of preventable childhood blindness, with a prevalence of 1-5 %.

The Contribution of Physical Exercise to Brain Resilience

A growing number of studies have demonstrated that exercise not only recovers or minimizes cognitive deficits by inducing better neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve but also counteracts brain pathol...

'All work, no independent play' cause of children's declining mental health

A new study suggests the rise in mental health disorders in children and teens is attributed to a decline over decades in opportunities for them to play, roam and engage in activities independent of d...

5 Tips To Help Students Arrive At Their Own Understandings

How To Help Students Arrive At Their Own Understandings

Are mental health disorders ever purely biological?

Two physical anthropologists argue that you cannot pin most mental health disorders on brain chemistry alone. As antidepressants will soon be a $16B industry, the chemical imbalance theory suits busin...

Scientists Shed More Light on Retina as 'Window to Brain'

Studies Support Use of Brain Glasses to Bring Patients Relief

Neurons in Primate Area MSTd Signal Eye Movement Direction Inferred from Dynamic Perspective Cues in Optic Flow

Neurons in Primate Area MSTd Signal Eye Movement Direction Inferred from Dynamic Perspective Cues in Optic Flow.

Effects of vestibular stimulation on motor development and stereotyped behavior of developmentally delayed children

Effects of vestibular stimulation on motor development and stereotyped behavior of developmentally delayed children.

Does Holding an Idea in Your Mind Involve Storing It in Synapses?

Comparing models of working memory with real-world data, MIT researchers found that information resides not in persistent neural activity, but in the pattern of their connections.

According to Psychologists, there are four types of Intelligence

People that have higher EQ and SQ tend to go further in life than those with a high IQ but low EQ and SQ. Most schools capitalize on improving IQ levels while EQ and SQ are played down. A man of high...

Motor Skill Interventions in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Motor Skill Interventions in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Spatial Biology: Location, Location, Location!

This article will review advances in multimodal IMS applications and a computational method to achieve higher resolution from spatial transcriptomics datasets.

5 Theories About the Dreaming Brain

For World Sleep Day, NNR investigates what goes on in the brain during dreams. We uncover fascinating ideas about rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep, the dreams of people born blind, and ask why some drea...

Gut Feeling: How the Gut–Brain Axis Affects Our Mood

The extent of the gut–brain connection is particularly striking in the field of microbiome research. Studies have shown that the microenvironment of the gut can alter the course of neuropsychiatric di...

Deep Dive: Can Too Much Sweetener Affect Your Grandchildren's Anxiety?

A new study suggests that aspartame, the common sweetener, produces anxiety-like behavior in mice, an effect that was passed on to multiple subsequent generations.

Musgutova Method of Reflex Integration for Children with Cerebral Palsy

Conversion disorder is a condition in which the patient presents with neurological symptoms without an apparent neurological cause. It is thought that this disturbance arises in response to psychologi...

Rethinking hyperactivity in pediatric ADHD: Preliminary evidence for a re-conceptualization of hyperactivity/impulsivity from the perspective of informant perceptual processes

Rethinking hyperactivity in pediatric ADHD: Preliminary evidence for a re-conceptualization of hyperactivity/impulsivity from the perspective of informant perceptual processes

The human brain builds structures in 11 dimensions, discover scientists

Groundbreaking research finds that the human brain creates multi-dimensional neural structures.

Effects of Misalignments in the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness Measurements with Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Effects of Misalignments in the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness Measurements with Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Auditory–Visual Misalignment: A Theoretical Perspective on Vocabulary Delays in Children With ASD

This article describes a new way of thinking about vocabulary delays in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We suggest that children with ASD may have difficulty learning words because their...

Stanford Trial Shows Parents Can Learn Therapy to Help Their Children With Autism Learn to Speak

Stanford Trial Shows Parents Can Learn Therapy to Help Their Children With Autism Learn to Speak

Sensory emotion regulation

Sensation and emotion are inextricably linked.

Subliminal messaging and nudge psychology lead us to believe that we can be influenced without us realizing, but just how powerful is our unconscious mind?

Subliminal messaging and nudge psychology lead us to believe that we can be influenced without us realizing, but just how powerful is our unconscious mind?

Do some cognitive functions improve with age?

Some brain functions may improve as we age.

Just 10 Minutes Of Movement Can Increase Focus & Brain Functioning

Just 10 Minutes Of Movement Can Increase Focus & Brain Functioning

At-Home Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Binocular Vision Disorders

Increased screen time has focused the eye care industry's attention on the impact of binocular vision disorders. Our eyes were never intended to spend long periods of time on close work – such as read...

'Cyclic sighing' can help breathe away anxiety

There's a growing interest in nonpharmacological ways of helping people regulate their mood. We may be able to identify certain kinds of anxiety that respond substantially to this sim...

Selective attention: How cognitive psychology can help reduce information overload

Selective attention: How cognitive psychology can help reduce information overload

Red Light Therapy Could Improve Age-Related Vision Decline

Red Light Therapy Could Improve Age-Related Vision Decline

Developmental Optometry For Children & Youth

The main goals of developmental optometry are to achieve a single, clear, comfortable binocular (two-eyed) vision and to develop visual-spatial, visual analysis, and visual-integration skills.

What is ADHD?

Some eye conditions are more common in people with ADHD, so the two may be connected in some way. At the moment, though, scientists are not sure where the link lies. Difficulty seeing can cause or wor...

Women have more Active Brains than Men

Largest functional brain imaging study to date identifies specific brain differences between women and men.

A Role for Vision in the Development of Inhibitory Networks

Inhibitory and excitatory networks in the brain's visual system develop through different processes, even if the organization of the networks is similar.

Green eyeglasses reduce pain-related anxiety in fibromyalgia patients, study shows

May reduce need for opioids in those with chronic pain.

Vision Therapy – Help for the Brain-Eye Connection

Vision, the brain-eye connection, can be improved with practice with vision therapy.

Cup Stacking: Studies Show Cup Stacking Activities Improve Reading Test Scores and Cross-Patterning Brain Development

This article provides information on the benefits of cup stacking activities and the impact it can have on brain building for higher learning.

Alertness Training Improves Spatial Bias and Functional Ability in Spatial Neglect

A multisite, randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial to examine the effectiveness of a digital health intervention targeting the intrinsic regulation of goal-directed alertness in patients with c...

An Investigation of Computer-based Brain Training on the Cognitive and EEG Performance of Employees

Neurocognitive skills (e.g., processing speed, attention and memory) were hypothesized to be critical for workplace performance and by extension for the work-life balance of employees.

Can Cognitive Training Improve Shoot/Don't-Shoot Performance? Evidence from Live Fire Exercises

Recent research suggests that shoot/don't-shoot errors (e.g., commission errors of shooting at nonhostile or unarmed civilians) can be linked to specific cognitive abilities, and these errors could be...

Improving Attentiveness: Effect of Cognitive Training on Sustained Attention Measures

The study presented in this article investigates the role of sustained attention as a primary contributor to electric line worker incidents.

Training sensory signal-to-noise resolution in children with ADHD in a global mental health setting

Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have impaired focus on goal-relevant signals and fail to suppress goal-irrelevant distractions.

Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System

Implications profound for neurological diseases from autism to Alzheimer's to multiple sclerosis.

The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system

The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system