Check out today's Research News Update for the latest on the role of positive emotions and resilience, several new studies on Autism, including differences in how these persons learn new behaviors and the role of parental stress in their child's behaviors, brainmaps that can detect early mental illness, such as schizophrenia, psychological interventions may not prevent PTSD, the role of the immune system in ...

Brain imaging and analysis continues to evolve and provide us with more information upon which to base our clinical decisions. Brodmann mapped the cortex according to types of neurons and their density in different cortical layers. The areas he numbered (1 to 52 in each hemisphere) followed the variations in the cellular architectures he observed. The Brodmann area information has been employed for more tha ...

The current Science Daily Research News Update brings a wide variety of interesting new research that covers brain waves and attention, re-conceptualization of migraine headaches, HIV and marijuana, daily drinking that leads to binge drinking, healthy living on the decline in the U.S., sneaky viruses, how the brain processes speech, smoking cessation and teens, a new approaches that could eradicate HIV/AIDS ...