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The cognitive challenges people with schizophrenia face are the result of fundamental wiring and biochemical problems in their brains that scientists are still trying to unravel, and they are the biggest obstacle to being able to live a somewhat
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It is known to be crucial to social skills and the ability to mentalise', or guess what other people are thinking...Brain scans revealed that volunteers with the largest numbers of friends also had the largest orbital frontal cortex. The study proves
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Neuroscientist Tali Sharot, author of The Optimism Bias, December 2011. Photograph: Andy Hall/Observer New Review We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures...But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than
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A 'spotlight of attention' shines a bright beam on certain neural processes, which then enter into conscious awareness. We all know what it means to be conscious, but an adequate definition of consciousness remains elusive. The contents of
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If beauty isn't in the eye of the beholder, it could well be a few centimetres above it in the medial orbital-frontal cortex, a group of British scientists say in a new study. On a quest to uncover similarities in what humans consider beautiful,
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Esther Inglis-Arkell A new test involving music can help doctors figure out if patients are minimally conscious or in a full vegetative state...But seriously, folks, the brain is a complex organ that can get messed up in a variety of ways. Some
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Teen binge drinking may affect the growth of the cortex in the brain that could result in lasting brain damage, U.S. researchers suggest. Fulton Crews, a professor of pharmacology and director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the
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Evolution has hardwired humans to respond to threats, but for some people, anxiety gets the upper hand. UC Berkeley scientists released new research Thursday that said people respond differently to anxiety because their brains are wired differently.
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Scientists prove older people are less impulsive Older people are less likely to be hot-headed Wisdom really does develop with increasing age, and it's partly because the brain slows down, scientists say. Elderly brains are less ruled by emotions and
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Well don't blame them, for their brains are the culprits. Researchers say that the brain''s orbital-frontal cortex is behind such individuals'' hyperbolic self-assessment of their skills or abilities, reports the Globe and Mail. They are zeroing in
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