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Study links CHILDHOOD OBESITY to thinner brain cortex and impaired cognitive function

October 14, 2025 -

Childhood obesity is widely known to increase the risk of chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. But emerging research suggests excess weight may also harm brain development at a critical stage, raising concerns about long-term cognitive function. A study led by Yale School of Medicine researchers, presented at the 2022 meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), reveals that children with high body mass index (BMI) scores ...

Auditory reinforcement: Study finds reading aloud to yourself helps you retain information

January 02, 2018 -

Instead of memorizing silently, speaking words aloud promotes better long-term memory of information. Learning and memory benefits more from active involvement, in this case, speaking out the words instead of reading silently. Professor Colin MacLeod, co-author of the study and chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, says that learning and memorization become easier tasks when activity is involved in the process. Dr. Noah Forrin, lead author of ...

Schizophrenia patients are benefiting from “avatar therapy” which gives a face to their auditory hallucinations

August 11, 2018 -

Threatening, auditory hallucinations are symptoms of schizophrenia. Around 60 to 70 percent of patients with the illness report experiencing these hallucinations. These voices (which may or may not sound like the patient’s own voice) generate too much “noise” in one’s head, causing many schizophrenic patients to be distracted, angry, or irritated. There have also been cases of schizophrenic patients attempting suicide because of these voices. Treatment for this symptom was lackluster ...

Premature birth, scheduled or not, is detrimental: Study finds link to delay in speech and language development

July 29, 2018 -

Babies born early in the third trimester may show signs of delayed auditory cortex development, which is a part of the brain that helps infants hear and understand sounds. This can influence the development of a baby's communication skills as they get older. The findings might even help doctors successfully screen babies who could undergo difficulties so they can receive the help they need beforehand.

An infant is considered premature once it is born before 37 ...

Blind people really do have better hearing: The brain adapts to sharpen it

February 19, 2020 - auditory cortex of all the participants, both moving and stationary stimuli triggered frequency-selective responses. However, in the visual cortex where hMT+ is located, they only found evidence of frequency selectivity for moving stimuli in early-blind individuals and those who have recovered their sight. In contrast, hMT+ in individuals with sight did not show selectivity for either stimulus.

“These results suggest that early blindness results in visual areas ...

Carotenoids are also good for your hearing: Study

August 24, 2018 - auditory cortex."

The auditory cortex is the part of the brain that processes sounds and other auditory information. It can distinguish between signals and noise in order to interpret each individual sound. Some theories link this part of the brain to some forms of higher thinking, such as translating other languages.

This and other parts of the brain appear to be improved by dietary carotenoids. Improvements to visual acuity and brain power are apparently ...

The brain adapts to survive: How do people with poor eyesight develop better hearing?

October 14, 2019 -

A study published in The Journal of Neuroscience found that there are two differences in the brains of blind individuals that may be responsible for their superior hearing. This study is one of the first to investigate and provide evidence of the effects of early blindness on the auditory cortex area of the brain.

“There’s this idea that blind people are good at auditory tasks because they have to make their way in the world without visual information. We wanted ...

Nicotine exposure during development leads to hearing problems (press release)

September 20, 2006 - auditory cortex, then exposed them to different frequencies of sound. They found that nicotine made the cortex much more responsive to sound if the rats had not had exposure to nicotine during their early development. In the case of previous exposure, there was no increased sensitivity to sound. According to Metherate, this occurs most likely because the nicotine is mimicking the action of acetylcholine on their shared receptors and increasing responsiveness to sound ...

Imagining threats beforehand can make you less afraid of them when (or if) they occur

April 03, 2019 -

The thesis of the argument is that fear is a learned reaction to certain stimuli. People quickly learn to fear a threatening or unpleasant experience. This fear will recur when certain cues, such as sights or sounds associated with the bad experience, are sensed. If the fear is severe, it can negatively impact life, often manifesting in emotional disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder, different forms of phobia, and anxiety.

It has been argued that the best way ...

Memory strengthening TMR technique found to be more successful when accompanied with undisturbed sleep to promote memory consolidation

June 11, 2018 -

Previous studies have shown that an undisturbed short plastic period after cueing is needed for TMR to be effective. Therefore, researchers from Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium looked at the effect of verbatim or interfering auditory presentation during wakefulness or non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and its impact on memory consolidation.

The researchers recruited 96 participants for the study. The participants were tasked to study a list of 40 word pairs that ...

Deep-learning AI can determine what song is playing in your head

July 11, 2018 - auditory cortex of the brain are responsible for breaking down the sounds into acoustic frequencies, such as high tones or low tones.

He and his team observed those brain areas to see if the latter were responsible for breaking down imagined sounds in much the same way they processed actual sounds. Examples of imagined sounds would be internal verbalization of the sound of one's voice or pretending that good music was filling a silent room.

They reported finding ...

Researchers determine that reading stories increases empathy

November 22, 2018 -

As part of the study, the scientists examined more than 20 million blog posts featuring personal stories through a software created by experts from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Forty blog entries were subsequently chosen and translated into Mandarin Chinese and Farsi. The blog entries, which featured stories such as divorce and lying, were then read by 90 American, Chinese, and Iranian respondents in their native language. The researchers also scanned the respondents' ...

New brain study reveals how music can change the structure of children’s brains, enhancing emotional and intellectual development, boosting decision-making network

December 20, 2017 -

Music training can alter both the structure of the brain's white matter, which transfers signals through the brain, and gray matter, which has most of the brain's neurons that are active in processing information. It also improves brain network engagements that optimize decision-making abilities and the capacity to focus attention.

These findings have been talked about in studies that have been recently published in scientific journals, including one in the journal ...

Music thought to enhance intelligence, mental health and immune system (press release)

August 24, 2006 - Music thought to enhance intelligence, mental health and immune system (press release)

Thursday, August 24, 2006 by: NewsTargetTags: health news, Natural News, nutritionAnother study in the volume looks at whether music training can make individuals smarter. Scientists found more grey matter in the auditory cortex of the right hemisphere in musicians compared to nonmusicians. They feel these differences are probably not genetic, but instead due to use and practice....

Linderman Unleashed: Chemtrails, aluminum particles and the damage they cause to the brain

January 25, 2022 -

"What we knew was that these particles tend to travel along the olfactory nerves, which are the smell nerves and the nose," he said. "And it travels directly to the part of the brain that has to do with memory and emotions, the hippocampus, the internal area and the prefrontal cortex, and that you can trace these chemicals traveling along that nerve and depositing in these areas of the brain."

Aerosolized aluminum, according to Blaylock, is also another thing that passes ...

People who live near wind turbines report having a lower quality of life

July 03, 2018 - auditory cortex, which is responsible for turning sounds into meaning. Moreover, the area of the brain associated with emotions also becomes active when people are exposed to sounds within those low frequency ranges that were previously considered to be inaudible.

Residents in the Scottish neighborhood of Fairlie, which is situated near an offshore wind turbine test site, have complained of sleep disturbances, sickness, headaches and dizziness. One woman who lives ...

Why do you like specific music over others? Turns out our expectations and biases greatly impact how our brain responds to music

May 24, 2018 - auditory cortex, as well as in another part of the brain connected with pleasure and reward. This increased activity appeared during the moment that the participant was told the player was a "professional," even before the piece started playing.

It appeared that participants listened more closely to a piece if they believed the player is a professional. The bias affected their experience from beginning to end of the performance.

In addition, the researchers inspected ...

The science behind “familiar smells:” How odors affect memory formation in the brain

November 15, 2019 -

Their study covered the piriform cortex. This region of the olfactory brain interprets smells picked up by the nose's olfactory receptors.

The Ruhr Universitat Bochum (RUB) team found that the piriform cortex directly affects the way the brain stores information in the hippocampus, which handles most of the functions involving memories.

RUB researchers Dr. Christina Strauch and Denise Manahan-Vaughan started their efforts in 2010. They wanted to unearth more ...

Empathy is NOT unique to humans: Researchers discover that rats feel the pain of others, too

November 15, 2019 -

When a person experiences physical pain, the cingulate cortex of the brain activates in response. This region also displays activity when the person sees another individual getting hurt.

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) investigated the cingulate cortex in the brain of rats. They reported that the rodents related to the suffering of others in the same way that humans did.

Further, when the researchers removed the cingulate cortex, ...