Particular parts of an individual's brain tend to work together on certain tasks. Researchers can look at these patterns of "functional connectivity" to predict traits – like the ability to pay attention.
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The headlines The Telegraph: Alzheimer’s disease: Online brain training “improves daily lives of over-60s” Daily Mail: The quiz that makes over-60s better cooks: Computer brain games ‘stave off mental…
It's time for neurons to share the glory. Gene activity isn't just a background utility of the brain, but an integral part of its operation.
Typically, researchers pool a bunch of brain scans to figure out the average way brains handle certain tasks. Instead, could they pick out individual brain profiles from a stack of 126 people's scans?
New technologies bring questions that have belonged to the abstract realm of philosophers into concrete focus. Why do medical interventions in the brain feel different than those elsewhere in the body?
Our bodies have a complex system to control food intake, driven by hormones. Hormone levels also change when we gain and lose weight.
In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don't have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
Put the kettle on and relax with a cuppa; your brain, heart and waistline will thank you.
Biology can only tell you so much about the workings of the brain. To understand how we think and remember things you need he help of a mathematician.
Science fiction can't become science fact if neuroscientists are to carry out some daring surgery.
Feeling guilty and out of your depth as a parent? You're not alone – and there are ways to turn the guilt you're feeling into positive changes for your family.
New evidence shows going back to a problem after sleeping gives your brain a chance to process the information it needs to solve it.
By tampering with the machinery which allows aggressive cancer cells to adapt, we can disrupt their ecosystem.
Solitary is used as a punishment but it doesn't make for better prisoners.
'Place cells' in the hippocampus are thought to guide us through our space but they may play a part in helping us to imagine future scenarios.
While there may be a connection between inflammation and depression, one doesn't necessarily lead to the other.
A study has shown that it is possible to lift rats out of depression by reactivating happy memories. But could it work in humans?
Those in charge of the Human Brain Project are right to accept that building an artificial brain is easier said than done.
What happens to your brain when you drink?
I recently wrote about the terrible sleep habits of the characters in House of Cards. I disapproved of Frank Underwood’s late-night computer work in the Oval Office, his new midnight iPad gaming habit…
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Pennsylvania State University
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BrainsCAN Research Associate, Western University
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroscience, University of Sussex
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, UCL
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne
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Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Senior Data Scientist, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
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