Neuroscience

Two Techniques Of Temporal Migraine Surgery 'Equally Effective'

Two migraine surgery techniques targeting a specific "trigger site" are both highly effective in reducing the frequency and severity of migraine headaches, according to a randomized trial. Patients with temporal-type migraine derive similar and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2015 - 8:30am

Medial Temporal Lobe And How New Memories Are Formed

In a new study, researchers found that neurons in a specific brain region play a key role in rapidly forming memories about every day events, a finding that may result in a better understanding of memory loss and new methods to fight it in Alzheimer’s and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2015 - 7:46am

Long-Term Memories Maintained By Prion-Like Proteins

Researchers have uncovered further evidence of a system in the brain that persistently maintains memories for long periods of time. Paradoxically, it works in the same way as mechanisms that cause mad cow disease, kuru, and other degenerative brain diseas ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2015 - 9:02am

Wind Farms: Can You Actually Hear Inaudible Sound?

Are wind farms harmful to humans? Some believe so, others refute this; this controversial topic makes emotions run high. To give the debate more objectivity, an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the lower limit range ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2015 - 7:30am

Stem Cells Provide Lasting Pain Relief In Mice

Chronic pain caused by the nerve damage of type 2 diabetes, surgical amputation, chemotherapy and other conditions is especially intractable because it resists painkilling medications. But in a study on mice, a Duke University team has shown that injectio ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2015 - 8:30am

Substance Abuse Associated With Lower Brain Volume In Women- But Not Men

A new study has found that long-term stimulant abuse had more significant effects on brain volume in women compared with men. The researchers sought to determine how the brains of people previously dependent on stimulants were different from the brains of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2015 - 2:42pm

Addiction Isn't Hardwired: Intellectual Pursuits May Buffer Brain Against Addiction

Challenging the idea that addiction is hardwired in the brain, a new study suggests that even a short time spent in a stimulating learning environment can rewire the brain’s reward system and buffer it against drug dependence. Scientists tracked cocaine c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2015 - 8:30am

The Neuroscience Of Why Screams Are So Terrifying

By Charles Choi, Inside Science-- Bloodcurdling screams in horror movies often send tingles down people's spines, even though they know such shrieks are fake. Now scientists have discovered the key ingredient of screams that activates the brain' ...

Article - Charles Choi - Jul 20 2015 - 8:30am

Music Alters The Teenage Brain

Music training, begun as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain's responses to sound and sharpen hearing and language skills, suggests a new study. The research indicates that music instruction helps enhance skills that are critical ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2015 - 7:30am

First And Last Syllables: Cognitive Mechanism Present At Birth

It may seem like infants just sleep, eat and cry, but newborn brains are full of activity and they are already gathering and processing important information from the world around them. At just two days after birth, babies are already able to process langu ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2015 - 10:30am