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These findings help reinforce a strategy whereby individuals may be able to improve their emotional functioning (Photo: AFP)

Anxiety can be tackled by stimulating brain activity

People may also be more likely to benefit from strategies that boost the brain's dorsolateral prefrontal activity.

19 Nov 2017 1:41 PM

Among drinkers under age 21, more than 90 per cent of the alcohol is consumed during binge drinking episodes. (Photo: Pixabay)

Drinking too much ups risk of cancer in students

Study finds that having five or more beers for men, or four for women, within two hours leads to distinctive changes in...

15 Sept 2017 8:48 AM

Both sexes had different factors disrupting their sleep such as children for women and finances for men (Photo: Pixabay)

Here's what your brain learns during sleep

Team recorded the brain activity of epilepsy patients who had electrodes implanted into their brain for the purpose of...

6 Oct 2018 5:43 AM

Closer the relationship, the more alike the neural patterns in parts of the brain governing emotional response, high-level reasoning, and the capacity to focus ones attention. (Photo: Pixabay)

Best friends' brains show similar neural activity patterns

Study shows close friends have comparable neural responses to life experiences.

31 Jan 2018 3:06 AM

Men are just as likely as women to identify as sapiosexual (Photo: Pixabay)

Women use their mind more during sexual arousal as compared to men

Researchers learnt that genital arousal was more strongly linked with brain activity among women than men.

17 Jan 2018 11:33 AM

One of the central challenges in modern neuroscience is recording the exchange of information between different regions of the brain. (Photo: ANI)

New method found to detect neural activity centre in brain

Researchers develop new method to detect light in brain.

20 Nov 2019 7:03 AM

One of the most fascinating yields of this research, Lewis said, was that they can tell if a person is sleeping simply by examining a little bit of CSF on a brain scan. (Photo: ANI)

How sleep helps brain to function

The cerebrospinal fluid is closely tied with blood flow and brain activity.

2 Nov 2019 8:13 AM

The findings may help to explain how that process may go wrong in people with learning difficulties. (Photo: Pixabay)

'Sleep spindles' key to boosting memory: study

The findings may help to explain how that process may go wrong in people with learning difficulties.

11 March 2018 9:31 AM

Such information processing is too complicated for a computer (Photo: AFP)

Study decodes working of a musician's brain

Musical styles and strengths vary dramatically: Some musicians are better at sight reading music, while others are...

30 Nov 2016 12:13 PM

Younger participants have only a few large synchronous groups (Photo: AFP)

Ageing causes brain activity to lose cohesion

Whether a person uses memory or rests, the number of synchronous groups of connections within one brain is consistent...

28 Nov 2016 3:38 AM

Our eye muscles are quite sluggish and imprecise, so the brain needs to constantly adapt its motor signals (Photo: AFP)

Blinking stabilises vision by enhancing brain function

The brain gauges the difference in what we see before and after a blink, and commands the eye muscles to make the needed...

22 Jan 2017 5:34 AM

The researchers caution that maintaining high levels of fitness through physical activity will not entirely eliminate or cure age (Photo: AFP)

Fitter older adults have better brain activity

Difficulty remembering new information represents one of the most common complaints in aging and decreased memory...

15 Jan 2017 9:45 AM