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Bilingual baby brains: Never too early to expose kids to 2 languages Ivanhoe Newswire Updated:  Tags:  A study out of the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences says it’s never too early to expose kids to two languages. Researchers measured brain waves and found that by eleven months of age, infants recognize and process sounds from Spanish and English. That gives them an advantage as they learn more. Daniel Perez and Jenny Ring-Perez started speaking Spanish...

UKs Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández talks about her research exploring the impact of music on Alzheimers patients. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 26, 2021) — Newly published research has found familiar music can elicit an extended emotional response in patients with Alzheimer’s-type dementia. The findings from this potential new approach were featured in issue three of volume 78 of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Building on the belief that music has emotional and behavioral benefits, researcher...

Music Aids Mental Health: Science Shows Why Peace, joy, healing. You can see it, plain and powerful, in the faces of those who make music on the path to recovery. You can hear it as they speak of music’s role in their journeys out of psychiatric darkness and into the light of reclaimed lives. Just watch and listen to those who harmonize through , an English program that’s open to anyone with any story — some with psychiatric diagnoses, some without, no questions asked either way. Or hea...

iStock Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020, scientists and researchers around the world went to work to develop vaccines to fight SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. On Dec. 11, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization allowing Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. A week later, a second vaccine, developed by Moderna, received the same FDA emergency use authorization. The Current spoke with ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Vighnesh Viswanathan, a Research Technician in the Reinhart Laboratory, explains the experimental task instructions to study volunteer Eleni Kouvaras before beginning data collection. view more  Credit: Reinhart Lab At times, we all double-check whether we locked the door, or wash our hands again just to be sure. However, one billion people worldwide experience these urges so intensely and continuously that they cannot help but do these actions compulsively, over and ov...

Psychology professor Dr. Carmen Westerberg analyzes sleep EEG data at Northwestern University in 2009. Photo courtesy of Dr. Carmen Westerberg After dedicating years of education to brain research and psychology, Dr. Carmen Westerberg, an associate psychology professor at Texas State, was awarded $300,000 to fund her upcoming study exploring the effects of sleep on memory retention and formation. The funds for the study were granted by the McKnight Endowme...

Researchers have shown how forces acting on the brain during traumatic injury are linked to damage seen years after the initial trauma. The findings,...

Israeli scientists have identified a specific gene mutation associated with autism and found that it has a significant impact on brain development in mice, with gene-expressions changes that are prominent in the cerebellum area of the brain. The research indicates that these findings could be instrumental in developing drugs to directly change the neural processes in the cerebellum and offer hope for effective medications for the main symptoms of autism in the future. The research team from Heb...

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When Empathy Hurts, Compassion Can Heal A new study shows compassion training can help us cope with other peoples distress Empathy can be painful. Or so suggests a growing body of neuroscientific research. When we witness suffering and distress in others, our natural tendency to empathize can bring us vicarious pain. Is there a better way of approaching distress in other people? A recent study, published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, suggests that we can better cope with others’ negat...