Neuroscience
- Liver, Brain Communicate In Order To Regulate Appetite
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Here's a diet tip that is certain to work: Eat nothing and drink nothing except water from 6 PM until you wake up the next day. With no dieting at all, you are certain to lose weight unless you go out of your way to eat three Big Macs at dinner. The r ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2014 - 9:01am
- 'Mexican Waves' In The Brain Revealed
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Neurons- cells in the brain that communicate chemical and electrical information- belong to one of two groups, inhibitory or excitatory. Much is known about excitatory neurons but not so much for inhibitory ones. ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2014 - 1:28pm
- Ancient Chinese Secret: Turmeric Spices Up Your Memory
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A single gram of turmeric at breakfast could help improve the memory of people who are in the very early stages of diabetes and potentially at greater risk of cognitive impairment. Turmeric is widely used in Asian cooking. Its characteristic yellow color ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2014 - 12:06pm
- Coffee Creamer, Crackers Linked To Worse Memory
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A new study finds that people of 1914 may have had worse memory than people of 1814. The reason is partially hydrogenated oil- trans fats- that became a cheaper, healthier replacement for the saturated fats in butter. Crystallized cottonseed oil- Crisco- ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2014 - 1:11pm
- Musicians Have Better Long-term Memory
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Imagine we gave you three letters, say G, C and D. Then we gave you a name to associate to some combination of those three letters. How many could you recall on command? Guitarists in cover bands do that all of the time. They can play thousands of songs f ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2014 - 4:10pm
- Chronic Pain Isn't All In The Brain
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It's not in the bones, but it might not be in the brain either. X-ray image by Shutterstock By Andreas Goebel, University of Liverpool ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 26 2014 - 8:31am
- Your Memory Can Play Tricks On You – Here’s How
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Your memory can play tricks on you. Shutterstock By Catherine Loveday, University of Westminster ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 4 2014 - 2:00pm
- Dopamine Helps With Mood- And Math
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The chemical messenger dopamine, colloquially called the 'happiness hormone', is important outside social psychology articles on Valentine's Day also; it has been linked to motivation and motor skills and may help neurons with difficult cogn ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2014 - 11:59am
- Cerebral Oxygenation: Why Kenyans Run Better Than You
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A study has found that elite Kenyan athletes have greater brain oxygenation during periods of maximum physical effort, which contributes to their success in long-distance races. Dr. Jordan Santos-Concejero, of the Department of Physical Education and Sport ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2014 - 9:30am
- Brain Inflammation Common In Autism
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There are too many factors and combinations of genetic traits to have any definitive cause of autism today, along with a wide range of diagnoses that add to the pool, but a new analysis has found that the autopsied brains of people who had autism share a ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 10:30am
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