Neuroscience

Here's What Happens To Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar For Lent

Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital of the World” – doesn’t help either of us. But An ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 18 2015 - 12:51pm

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

Smartphones Are Making Us Forget How To Think

Modern smartphones are wonderful devices- they let us check email we won't reply to until we get to a desktop, they take pictures and sometimes they even make a poor quality phone call. But that convenience comes with a price: it is easy to avoid thi ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2015 - 9:56am

This Dog Can Detect Thyroid Cancer- By Sniffing Human Urine Samples

A trained scent dog has been found to accurately distinguish between benign and cancerous urine samples of thyroid cancer patients a terrific 88.2 percent of the time, according to a new study. That canine diagnostic accuracy is only slightly less than tha ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2015 - 11:14am

Common Genes For Autism And High Intelligence- Study

A study has found new evidence linking genetic factors associated with autism to better cognitive ability in people who do not have the condition- which means like many things in genetics it could be a small variation that separates a benefit from a detrim ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2015 - 1:38pm

Mind Reading: Brain Activity Of Taste Decoded

A team of researchers can detect how taste is encoded in patterns of neural activity in the human brain. That means they can basically read your mind when it comes to food. Tastants in the mouth activate specific receptors on the tongue corresponding to e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2015 - 1:13pm