In three out of five studies, methylphenidate "at least partially normalized" brain activation in ADHD patients, compared to healthy young people. Different Tasks Affect Different Brain Areas A ...

More difficult trials showed different patterns of brain activation to easy ones, as if the brain's traffic was being rerouted along different roads. The trickier the task, the more the patterns ...

Research provides new insights into how the brain forms habits and explains why they can be so difficult to break.

Brain imaging reveals that people who practice structured task switching develop more efficient activation patterns in the prefrontal cortex, allowing faster transitions between different ...

Patterns of brain activation during tasks requiring memory differ depending ... Atrophy alone, however, could not explain the different results in the two groups of subjects, since the effects ...

Participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while completing seven different tasks ... cannabis use showed lower brain activation during a task involving working memory ...

Can Google make you smarter? Is the more you Yahoo, the better? A new study suggests that searching online could be beneficial for the brain. A study at the University of California, Los Angeles, ...

The answer is maybe. While so many studies noted different activation patterns in the brain, these did not necessarily amount to differences in the performance of given tasks. At the same time ...

Fumagalli and their colleagues analyzed the findings of over 150 studies that examined people's brain activation patterns as they were reading a wide range of texts in different alphabetic ...