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Rap Music Increasingly Mixes in Mental Health Metaphors

Dec. 7, 2020 — The proportion of rap songs that referenced depression, suicide and mental health struggles more than doubled between 1998 and 2018, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

Using a Video Game to Understand the Origin of Emotions

Dec. 4, 2020 — A number of studies have sought to connect given emotions, such as fear or pleasure, to specific areas of the brain, but without success. A research team has now analyzed volunteers while they were ...

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What Social Distancing Does to a Fish Brain

Dec. 2, 2020 — Researchers have discovered a brain molecule that functions as a 'thermometer' for the presence of others in an animal's environment. Zebrafish 'feel' the presence of others ...

Restoring a Rudimentary Form of Vision in the Blind

Dec. 3, 2020 — Restoration of vision in blind people through a brain implant is on the verge of becoming reality. Recent discoveries show that newly developed high-resolution implants in the visual cortex make it ...

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Visual Short-Term Memory Is More Complex Than Previously Assumed

Dec. 8, 2020 — Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather, several types of ...

Grasping an Object: Model Describes Complete Movement Planning in the Brain

Dec. 7, 2020 — Neurobiologists have developed a model that for the first time can completely represent the neuronal processes from seeing to grasping an ...

Reconstruction of Eye Tissue Gives New Insight Into Outer Retina

Dec. 2, 2020 — Researchers used a newly developed imaging technique called serial block face scanning electron microscopy, to produce a digital reconstruction of eye tissues from the outer retina, at very high ...

Repurposed Mouse Model Sheds Light on Loss of Smell in COVID-19

Dec. 1, 2020 — A repurposed mouse model can develop symptoms of both severe COVID-19 (lung damage, blood clots, abnormal blood vessels, and death) and also of milder disease, including loss of the sense of smell, ...

Drug Development Target for Retinal Dystrophies

Dec. 1, 2020 — Researchers report that deleting one of the inhibitors of the RPE65 gene in a mouse model that carries a human disease mutation prevents degeneration of cone photoreceptors that are used for daytime ...

Children With Dyslexia Show Stronger Emotional Responses

Dec. 1, 2020 — Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative ...

How 'Smell Training' Could Help Overcome Post-Viral Smell Distortions

Nov. 30, 2020 — Smell loss is a prominent symptom of Covid-19 and the pandemic is leaving many people with long-term smell loss or smell distortions such as parosmia. Parosmia happens when people experience strange ...

How SARS-CoV-2 Reaches the Brain

Nov. 30, 2020 — Researchers have studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains of patients with COVID-19. The results show that SARS-CoV-2 enters the brain via nerve cells in the ...

Research Unlocks New Information About Reading Through Visual Dictionary in the Brain

Nov. 30, 2020 — The uniquely human ability to read is the cornerstone of modern civilization, yet very little is understood about the effortless ability to derive ...

Cortex Over Reflex: Study Traces Circuits Where Executive Control Overcomes Instinct

Nov. 30, 2020 — Via circuit tracing and behavioral manipulation using optogenetics, a new study shows that a region of the prefrontal cortex connects to the superior ...