Neuroscience

Can Brain Imaging Predict Your Behavior?

Noninvasive brain scans, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, have led to basic science discoveries about the human brain and have also been wildly misused, claiming to correlate everything from the biology of voting to ideas like that people wi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 5:12pm

Cell Transplants Fix Biological Clock

Within the nervous system there is a structure called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, a site considered as the biological clock in all mammals, including humans. A new study has found that when this nucleus is damaged or destroyed the rhythm of the biological ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 11:40am

Burst Generators: How The Spinal Cord Does What The Brain Thinks

As has been demonstrated, even after complete spinal paralysis the human spinal cord is able to trigger activity in the leg muscles using electrical pulses from an implanted stimulator. Now a team of researchers has succeeded in identifying the mechanisms ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 2:00pm

Dopamine Discovery Brings Cocaine Addiction Antidote A Bit Closer

According to the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, cocaine is the second most commonly used illegal addictive in Europe, after cannabis.  A discovery related to the mechanism behind a dopamine transporter could help in the developmen ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2015 - 9:00am

'Idiosyncratic' Brain Patterns In Autism

Autism Spectrum Disorder, a broad range of behavioral and cognitive issues that usually impair learning ability, has been studied for many years but there remain far more questions than answers. Some research into the brain functions of individuals with au ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2015 - 1:18pm

When It Comes To Emotion, Men And Women Process Emotions Differently

Men and women are different in lots of ways and some contend that women are more emotional and that makes a difference in others areas. A recent large-scale study focused on determining the gender-dependent relationship between emotions, memory performance ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2015 - 7:00pm

Fat And Sugar-Heavy Diets Are Addictive- And Harm Your Brain

A Western diet may be negatively affecting your brain not just your belly. Jams, CC BY-NC-SA By Terry Davidson, American University and Camille Sample, American University ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 21 2015 - 9:00am

Neuroscientists Predict Hand Movements By Measuring Brain Cell Activity.

We use our hands a lot each day. Humans have highly developed fine motor skills and so we are able to perform grasping movements with variable precision and power distribution, everything from tying our shoelaces to holding a balloon. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2015 - 10:45am

Counterintuitive: Anti-Inflammatory Protein May Trigger Alzheimer's Disease Plaque

Inflammation has long a target in Alzheimer's disease studies so a new finding in Neuron is counterintuitive. In the study, researchers hace uncovered the mechanism by which anti-inflammatory processes may trigger the disease and this anti-inflammato ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2015 - 9:01am

750 Genes Involved In Long-Term Memory

A new study has identified genes involved in long-term memory in the worm as part of research aimed at finding ways to retain cognitive abilities during aging. The study identified more than 750 genes involved in long-term memory, including many that had ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2015 - 11:30am