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The primary visual cortex, which processes and interprets information from the retina, continues to evolve throughout adult life.

Exposure to polluting hydrocarbons can cause attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in children, according to a study.

An intelligent evolutionary mechanism that defends us in times of famine is also capable of screwing up the best diet plan.

They identify which area of the brain is affected and in what way by poor quality of sleep.

They show that learning to read and write has incredible effects on the structure of our brain.

A team of researchers from Kings College London (United Kingdom) has carried out a study that tried to shed light on the incidence of premature births in babies. The work has concluded that being born before 33 weeks of gestation increases the risk of suffering neurological diseases, including autism and attention deficit disorders. The study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Disorders such as anxiety, depression, or drug addiction may have their origin in the delicate bond between painful and positive experiences. Thus, the brain circuits that manage events on both sides can cancel each other out, with positive and negative experiences connected. Its imbalance is what would cause this type of disorder. It is one of the conclusions of the latest study carried out by a team of neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and collected by the journal Nature.

The study has been based on the analysis of the genome of almost 80,000 people.