Why children confuse simple words: Kids have ‘and or’ problem despite sophisticated reasoning
Imagine, for a moment, you are a parent trying to limit how much dessert your sugar-craving young children can eat....
Read moreImagine, for a moment, you are a parent trying to limit how much dessert your sugar-craving young children can eat....
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Read moreSome mental illnesses may stem, in part, from the brain's inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. For example,...
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Read moreIn the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, patients are often unable to remember recent experiences. However, a new study from...
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Read moreU.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a 1932 opinion, wrote that a state could be a 'laboratory' for policy,...
Read moreWhen the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons....
Read moreSleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep. However, MIT neuroscientists have...
Read moreMIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the effects of...
Read moreWhen the eyes are open, visual information flows from the retina through the optic nerve and into the brain, which...
Read moreWhen you remember a particular experience, that memory has three critical elements -- what, when, and where. MIT neuroscientists have...
Read moreAbout 8 million Americans suffer from nightmares and flashbacks to a traumatic event. This condition, known as post-traumatic stress disorder...
Read moreMIT neuroscientists have shown that they can cure the symptoms of depression in mice by artificially reactivating happy memories that...
Read moreSome decisions arouse far more anxiety than others. Among the most anxiety-provoking are those that involve options with both positive...
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