Neuroscience

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

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

EEGs Predict A Movie's Success Better Than Surveys

75 percent of movies released to theaters lose money, making the film industry even less able to pick winners in the private sector than the government. Surely there has to be a better method than greenlighting a movie because another studio is doing the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2015 - 9:14pm

Coffee Linked To Reduced Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis

Drinking coffee may  lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new paper out today For the study, researchers looked at a Swedish study of 1,629 people with MS and 2,807 healthy people, and a U.S. study of 1,159 people with MS and 1, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2015 - 5:00pm

Study Suggests Hippocampus Role In Unconscious Memory System

A new paper challenges a long-accepted hypothesis about the role the hippocampus plays in our unconscious memory.  For decades, neuroscientists have believed that this part of the brain is not involved in processing unconscious memory, the type that allows ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2015 - 12:18pm

Insulin Resistance, Behavioral Disorders Linked

People with diabetes are prone to anxiety and depression but others with chronic diseases that require similar levels of management suffer from anxiety and depression less. Why that might be is unclear but Joslin Diabetes Center researchers have offered an ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2015 - 9:45am

Faces Look More Male When Seen By Left Side Of The Brain

A small experiment has found that people are quicker to categorize a face as being male when it is shown to the left side of the brain.  The conclusion was drawn from an analysis of responses from 42 volunteers who were asked to focus on a cross in the cen ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2015 - 9:24pm