For many decades, neuroscientists believed there was a “critical period” in which the brain could learn to make sense of visual input, and that this window closed around the age…
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Marijuana affects your brain’s ability to function at higher levels, study says
CNN — Remember those classic stoner dudes — Cheech and Chong, anyone? — spending their days in a weed-drenched room (or car), capable of little besides finding that next great…
Pregnant women who consume garbage “reprogram” their unborn children’s brains to become junk food addicts – NaturalNews.com
(Natural News) New research out of Rutgers University in New Jersey has found that women who consume unhealthy foods during pregnancy pass on the consequences of those bad choices to…
Teens’ brains aged faster during the first year of the pandemic, study says, and stress may be to blame
CNN — The brains of US teens have physically changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says. The young study participants also reported more severe…
University of Minnesota research project will study impact of long COVID on brains
How do you research the effects of long COVID-19 on Black and brown people when most volunteers for medical studies are white? University of Minnesota researchers this year started recruiting…
Post-mortem brains of SuperAgers reveal significantly larger neurons in memory region — ScienceDaily
Neurons in an area of the brain responsible for memory (known as the entorhinal cortex) were significantly larger in SuperAgers compared to cognitively average peers, individuals with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease…
Using new technique, researchers make surprising discoveries about how flies’ brains respond to tastes — ScienceDaily
Taste matters to fruit flies, just as it does to humans: like people, the flies tend to seek out and consume sweet-tasting foods and reject foods that taste bitter. However,…
Brains of children with autism may not always ‘see’ body language, study finds — ScienceDaily
Noticing and understanding what it means when a person leans into a conversation or takes a step back and crosses their arms is a vital part of human communication. Researchers…
How mosquito brains encode human odor so they can seek us out — ScienceDaily
Mosquitoes. Bane of backyard picnics — and deadly in Zika- and dengue-prone regions. Most of the world’s mosquitos are opportunistic, willing to drink blood from any nearby source. But in…
World Economic Forum believes people are “useless eaters,” and views their “brains and bodies” as product that can be hacked, controlled and discarded – NaturalNews.com
(Natural News) One of the brains behind The World Economic Forum (WEF), is self-proclaimed prophet, Yuval Noah Harari. He believes in the Great Reset, in transhumanism, in culling the population,…