• 空气质量影响大脑认知

    12-11-25 美国南加州大学的研究人员发现,居住在空气污染严重地区的老年人大脑要比实际年龄老三岁,因其大脑认知功能受到空气质量影响衰退更快。这项针对超过1.4万50岁以上人群进行的研究发现,空气污染对大脑健康及其功能都有负面影响。 Elderly people living in areas of hig...

  • 阿尔茨海默病可在发病前及早发现

    12-11-08 Researchers have found some of the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease, more than two decades before the first symptoms usually appear. 研究人员发现,阿尔茨海默病一些最早的迹象,早于通常首次症状 的 出现达20多年。 Treating the disease early is thou...

  • 大脑如何控制习惯

    12-11-01 Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every day without thinking about it, liberating your brain to ponder(考虑,沉思) other things, such as what to...

  • 记忆力超众之高寿者的大脑的秘密

    12-08-20 Researchers have long chronicled what goes wrong in the brains of older people with dementia. But Northwestern Medicine researcher Emily Rogalski wondered what goes right in the brains of the elderly who still have terrific memories. And, do those p...

  • 脑成像图片可显示人的智慧高低

    12-08-02 When it comes to intelligence, what factors distinguish the brains of exceptionally smart humans from those of average humans? As science has long suspected, overall brain size matters somewhat, accounting for about 6.7 percent of individual variati...

  • 记忆的主要存储库逐渐被网络取代

    12-02-04 The Internet is becoming our main source of memory instead of our own brains, a study has concluded. 一项研究得出结论称,网络正取代人脑成为记忆的主要存储库。 In the age of Google, our minds are adapting so that we are experts at knowing where to fin...

  • 婴儿对成人的声音和情感格外敏感

    11-07-01 Young babies' brains are already specially attuned to(习惯于) the sounds of human voices and emotions, according to a report published online on June 30 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Three- to seven-month-old infants showed more ac...

  • 创伤性记忆可以擦除吗?

    11-04-28 Could veterans of war, rape victims and other people who have seen horrific crimes someday have the traumatic memories that haunt them weakened in their brains? In a new study, UCLA life scientists report a discovery that may make the reduction of s...

  • 婴儿的大脑以成人方式处理语言

    11-01-09 Babies, even those too young to talk, can understand many of the words that adults are saying and their brains process them in a grown-up way. Combining the cutting-edge technologies of MRI and MEG, scientists at the University of California, San Di...

  • 足孕宝宝出生时脑部具有无意识活动

    10-11-02 Full-term babies are born with a key collection of networks already formed in their brains, according to new research that challenges some previous theories about the brain's activity and how the brain develops. The study is published today in the j...