by Yoon Ji | Apr 14, 2021 | Featured News
Source: News@Northeastern (published on March 23, 2021; by Eva Botkin-Kowacki) We all do it. One second you’re fully focused on the task in front of you, a conversation with a friend, or a professor’s lecture, and the next second your mind is wandering to your dinner...
by Yoon Ji | Apr 14, 2021 | Featured News
Source: Psypost (published on March 23, 2021; by Beth Ellwood) New research offers evidence that school-based mindfulness training can improve cognitive control among children. The study, published in Human Brain Mapping, found that an 8-week mindfulness training...
by Yoon Ji | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured News
Source: News@Northeastern (published on January 2, 2020; by Roberto Molar Candanosa) Our brains consist of different regions that support the cognitive functions we need to survive. But none of these regions work alone. They receive and send input at all times,...
by Yoon Ji | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured News
Source: MIT News Researchers find that brain scans can predict the success of treatment for social anxiety disorder. For patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD), current behavioral and pharmaceutical treatments work about half the time. After weeks of investment...
by Yoon Ji | Sep 21, 2020 | Featured News
Source: MIT News Schizophrenia, a brain disorder that produces hallucinations, delusions, and cognitive impairments, usually strikes during adolescence or young adulthood. While some signs can suggest that a person is at high risk for developing the disorder, there is...
