Two new studies published this month show that living in places with higher traffic-related air pollution may be bad for the brain. The second study looked at the brains of 12-year-old and found structural changes in the brains of those who had significant exposure to traffic-related air pollution as infants. All details here, on MedicalXpress.com: “High […]
Two new studies published this month show that living in places with higher traffic-related air pollution may be bad for the brain. The first study looked at 678,000 adults living in Vancouver and found that those who lived near major roads or highways faced a higher risk of dementia, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis. The study’s […]
There’s a new thing called “Zoom fatigue,” named after the videoconferencing app Zoom. That’s because so many people have noticed they feel exhausted after conducting their work and social life online (on Zoom and other apps) instead of in person—even when it’s the same work or social interaction. Why is that, and what does it […]
It takes some time—about 120 milliseconds—for our brains to process what we sense. So, what we think is happening “right now” is a prediction, based on what was happening milliseconds before. That’s how a batter can hit a baseball, even though his visual sense lags behind its movement. As Elizabeth Fernandez says, “This is just […]
There is no quick fix for ADHD. Although medication can help treat people’s symptoms, it’s only part of an overall ADHD treatment strategy. Another significant element of that strategy are Cognitive and Behavioral training and techniques, such as the ones developed here in Hong Kong by PowerBrain Rx. For many years, it has proven to […]
Researchers at McGill University in Canada have found that our brains process the lyrics and the melody of a song on entirely different sides of the brain. The timing information required to understand lyrics is processed in the left half of the brain—while the frequency patterns crucial for recognizing melody are detected in the right […]
You may have heard that in teenagers, the “rational” brain develops later than the “emotional” one. A lot of the talk about teenagers is how that combination can be dangerous —leading to risky behaviour. But we shouldn’t focus on the downside, researchers say. This same quality leads teenagers to excel in creativity, lead social movements, and more. […]
