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Childhood 'screen time': Warning over TV and computers "Parents need to do more to stop children spending too much time watching television or playing computer games, according to a psychologist." www.bbc.co.uk (05/21/2012) Face Your Fears and Scare the Phobia Out of Your Brain "A single positive exposure to a dreaded thing, like a spider, can reset the fright mechanism, research suggests." www.usnews.com (05/21/2012) Neuroscience Art: Greg Dunn's Neurons Painted In Japanese...

  This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory "A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption." newsroom.ucla.edu (05/15/2012) Bird brains teach us a few things about our own brains "Celebrated by poets and welcomed as a harbinger...

Music training benefits babies’ brains "Early musical training benefits children even before they can walk or talk, says the first-ever study of its kind." www.khaleejtimes.com (05/13/2012) Journey to the centre of the brain "Researchers have a goal so ambitious it is almost unthinkable - learning how all 85 billion neurons in the human brain are wired up." The Sydney Morning Herald reports of Harvard University Neuroscientist Dr. Jeff Lichtman's...

Brain Scans Give Glimpse of How Your Dog Thinks "Brain scans of dogs could give researchers a new tool for studying what happens in the mind of man’s best friend." www.wired.com (05/04/2012) Injection offers Alzheimer's hope "Hopes have been raised for new Alzheimer's treatments after scientists found an injection could stop the body from killing brain cells by "cutting off" their protein supply." www.telegraph.co.uk (05/07/2012) Did a Copying Mistake Make Humans...

Study Sheds Light on How Birds Navigate by Magnetic Field "Researchers have identifying cells in a pigeon’s brain that record detailed information on the earth's magnetic field." www.nytimes.com (04/26/2012) Link between cell phones and cancer may be unjustified "A new U.K. science review says not to worry about brain tumors while chatting on mobile phones because "evidence overall has not demonstrated any adverse effects on human health." news.cnet.com (04/26/2012) Blood Flow...

How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain "For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship." www.nytimes.com (04/18/2012) No 'God Spot' In Brain, Spirituality Linked To Right Parietal Lobe "Scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” one...

Matisse was a neuroscientist "Modern art is an explosion of colors, smooth lines, flat portraits — and it turns out, neuroscience. It also once triggered some strong psychology" www.tucsoncitizen.com (04/14/2012) Groundbreaking Brain Injection For Parkinson's Disease Brings Fresh Hope To Sufferers "A brand new form of ‘gene therapy’ for Parkinson’s disease has excited experts today, after it was revealed that it could revolutionise the way the neurodegenerative disease is...

The Benefits of Berries to the Brain "The Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University has reviewed the studies and found that berry fruits protect brain cells from damage and prevent inflammation." www.theatlantic.com (04/04/2012) Study: Women Have Harder Time Quitting Smoking "Breaking the habit is a big challenge for just about everyone, but according to a new study, women have a harder time quitting than men." www.fox8.com (04/04/2012) Brain...

So You Think About Dance? "Spectators experience some of the same brain impulses as the dancers they’re watching." the-scientist.com (03/30/2012) A Beautiful Mind "The human brain is an organized, 3D grid composed of elegant, ribbon-like fibers." the-scientist.com (03/29/2012) Brain Matures with Puberty in Teens "In a study of 67 teenagers, researchers have discovered that the timing of the brain’s maturing is closely related to puberty in teenagers." psychcentral.com (03/31/2012) Bilingualism helps keep Alzheimer's at...

The Brain on Love "All relationships change the brain — but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self." opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com (03/24/2012) A Neuroscientist's Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain "M.I.T. scientist Sebastian Seung describes the audacious plan to find the connectome--a map of every single neuron in the brain. Here, he...