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IMAGE: Harvey James believes studying unconscious biases can help researchers learn how outbreaks are born. view more
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COLUMBIA, Mo. - In the midst of a pandemic that has claimed more than 2 million lives worldwide and disrupted nearly every facet of society since it appeared more than a year ago, understanding the factors that create and facilitate disease outbreaks is more important than ever. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have determined that cognitive biases patterns of errors in thinking that affect judgments and behaviors, often unconsciously can help create and worsen foodborne disease outbreaks.
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IMAGE: Dr. Wylie, director of the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation, specializes in the implementation of neuroimaging techniques in rehabilitation research. view more
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East Hanover, NJ. March 8, 2021. Kessler Foundation researchers have demonstrated changes in the functional connectivity within the fatigue network in response to cognitive fatigue. This finding, the first of its kind, was reported in
Scientific Reports on December 14, 2020 in the open access article, Using functional connectivity changes associated with cognitive fatigue to delineate a fatigue network (doi: 10.1038//s41598-020-78768-3).
The authors are Glenn Wylie, DPhil, Brian Yao, PhD, Helen M. Genova, PhD, Michele H. Chen, PhD, and John DeLuca, PhD, of Kessler Foundation. All have faculty appointments at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Wylie is also a research scientist at The Department of Veterans Affairs War-related Injury a
Odors evoke powerful memories, an experience enshrined in literature by Marcel Proust and his beloved madeleine. A new paper is the first to identify a neural basis for how the brain enables odors to so powerfully elicit those memories. The paper shows unique connectivity between the hippocampus the seat of memory in the brain and olfactory areas in humans. It s like a superhighway from smell to the hippocampus.
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IMAGE: Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Opthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of the study. view more
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Mount Sinai Researchers find a new way to prevent attention deficits associated with Fragile X, a leading genetic cause of autism, in an animal model
Corresponding Author: Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
Bottom Line: The adolescent maturation of the frontal cortex is important for establishing cognitive function, and disruption of this process is associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. This study uncovered a new molecular driver of frontal circuit maturation that is essential for cognitive function, and demonstrated, in an animal model, that this mechanism can be targeted to