Neuroscience

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

Whole Food Diet Linked To Greater Cognitive Dysfunction In Alzheimer’s

Though adopting a whole-food diet has become popular in some circles, is it really going to help you? Perhaps, perhaps not.  One reason to err on the side of caution and not chase diet fads is that fads tend to be expensive and their benefit is unknown. A ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2015 - 10:41am

Do You Worry Your Child Might Have A Learning Disability?

Learning disabilities may make life more of a challenge, but a diagnosis is not a life sentence. Shutterstock By Sue O'Neill; Iva Strnadová, and Therese M. Cumming ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 5 2015 - 1:01pm

Experience-dependent Plasticity In The Adult Brain

A new study has shown an unprecedented degree of connectivity reorganization in newly-generated hippocampal neurons in response to experience, suggesting their direct contribution to the processing of complex information in the adult brain. The hippocampus ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2015 - 12:31pm

How The Brain’s Internal Maps Are Linked To The External World

The brain’s GPS wouldn't be much value if its maps of our surroundings that were not calibrated to the real world- grounded in reality. But they are, and a new study shows how this is done. The way that the brain’s internal maps are linked and anchore ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2015 - 11:24am

Fat- The Sixth Taste

People are not as conscious of tasting fat as they are of other taste qualities. John Benson, CC BY By Russell Keast, Deakin University ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 12 2015 - 6:02pm

Your Skull: Now An Extended Network Structured In Ten Modules

A new mathematical analysis tool can numerically describe the skull as an extended network structured in ten modules.  Anatomical Network Analysis (AnNA) is based on network analysis mathematical tools for studying anatomy and has led to several studies of ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2015 - 5:05pm