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Scientists find dopamine, serotonin have unexpectedly profound roles in the human brain , articleIn first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of researchers has revealed two well-known neurochemicals — dopamine and serotonin — are at work at sub-second speeds to shape how people perceive the world and take action based on their perception.
Date: Oct 12, 2020 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists reveal neural basis of confirmation bias , articleAn international research team comprising neuroscientists at Virginia Tech and the University of London revealed brain mechanisms and functional regions that underlie confirmation bias — a phenomenon where people strongly favor information that reinforces their existing opinions over contradictory ones.
Date: Dec 17, 2019 -
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Virginia Tech graduate students selected to join competitive Society for Neuroscience program , articleAmnah Eltahir and Alyssa Brunal-Brown, Virginia Tech graduate students at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, were accepted into the Society for Neuroscience’s fellowship and associate programs, respectively.
Date: Jun 11, 2019 -
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Judges, neuroscientists consider how science and criminal justice converge at Roanoke neurolaw conference , articleNeuroscientists and addiction experts at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC believe that emerging neuroscientific discoveries could complement criminal justice.
Date: May 02, 2019 -
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VTCRI researchers find positive effects of early education intervention four decades later , articleNew research published in Nature Communications, led by Read Montague, of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, suggests that participants who received educational interventions in early childhood show positive effects on social decision-making more than four decades later.
Date: Nov 20, 2018 -
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VTCRI researcher to deliver internationally renowned Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture , articleRead Montague will become the 41st person to present the annual Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture on June 2 at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Brains, and Behavior: Order and Disorder in the Nervous System.
Date: May 30, 2018 -
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Keep calm and carry on: VTCRI scientists make first serotonin measurements in humans , articleScientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have begun to unravel how serotonin acts, based on data collected in a first-of-its-kind experiment that utilized electrochemical probes implanted into the brain of awake human beings.
Date: May 01, 2018 -
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Researchers find that brain imagery shows difference between knowing or reckless behavior in criminal acts , articleScientists and lawyers speak different languages, but there is common ground. Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists working in a multi-institutional team with legal authorities have discovered that brain imaging can determine whether someone is acting in a state of knowledge about a crime.
Date: Mar 13, 2017 -
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NIH’s alcohol addiction research programs leader will speak at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute , articleGeorge Koob, the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, will discuss the neurocircuitry of alcohol addiction at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
Date: Jan 17, 2017 -
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UVA, Virginia Tech Carilion partner to fund cross-university neuroscience research , articleThe University of Virginia-Virginia Tech Carilion Neuroscience Research Collaboration have announced more than a half million dollars in grant funding will be awarded to nine research teams to tackle pressing problems in brain development and function in health and disease.
Date: Dec 11, 2016 -
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Beliefs about nicotine influence cigarette craving , articleIn a study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers found that participants failed to satisfy their craving by simply smoking a nicotine cigarette. The participants had to actually believe that the cigarette contained nicotine.
Date: Sep 13, 2016 -
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New journal launched for up-and-coming field of computational psychiatry , articleScientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute are teaming up with neuroscientists around the world.
Date: Jun 22, 2016 -
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Endowed professorships named for Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scholars , articleWarren Bickel is the first Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Science Research Professor, and P. Read Montague is the first Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor.
Date: Mar 24, 2016 -
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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists discover beliefs can be just as powerful as nicotine , articleVirginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have discovered that beliefs can regulate the effects of nicotine on the human brain.
Date: Feb 26, 2015 -
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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists developing speedy test for autism spectrum disorder , article
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have designed a two-minute brain-imaging test that may be able to aid in the diagnosis of children with autism spectrum disorder
Date: Jan 15, 2015 -
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Liberal or conservative? Brain responses to disgusting images help reveal political leanings , articleOn the verge of Election Day, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists find that biology influences political ideology.
Date: Oct 31, 2014 -
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High earners in a stock market game found to have brain patterns that can predict bubbles and crashes , article
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? It may be that, when it comes to stock market success, your brain is heeding the wrong neural signals.
Date: Jul 08, 2014 -
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Scientists discover how Alzheimer's drugs sharpen the brain's performance , articleResearchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have discovered how the leading Alzheimer’s pharmaceuticals might sharpen the brain’s performance.
Date: May 13, 2013 -
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The subtle hallmarks of psychiatric illness can reveal themselves even remotely , articleMost people are so attuned to the nuances of social interaction that they can detect clues to mental illness while playing a strategy game with someone they have never met.
Date: Apr 09, 2013 -
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Kirk and Spock joined at the hip: The feeling of computing , articleKirk and Spock may not need a Vulcan mind meld to share cognition: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have found that our cold reasoning and hot feelings may be more intimately connected than previously thought.
Date: Mar 12, 2013
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