Neuroscience
- Concussion May Impact Men And Women Differently
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New research suggests concussion may not significantly impair symptoms or cognitive skills for one gender over another, however, women may still experience greater symptoms and poorer cognitive performance at preseason testing. The study released today wi ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2015 - 8:00am
- Genes May Influence How Well You Take Tests
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Could it be that genetic differences can affect how well children perform in exams? Our research suggests that this may well be the case and that individual differences between children are, to a large extent, due to the inherited genetic differences betw ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 27 2015 - 8:00am
- Sleep Makes Our Memories More Accessible
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Sleeping not only protects memories from being forgotten, it also makes them easier to access, according to new research which suggest that after sleep we are more likely to recall facts which we could not remember while still awake. In two situations whe ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2015 - 10:00am
- Grasping How The Brain Plans Gripping Motion
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With the results of a new study, neuroscientists have a firmer grasp on the way the brain formulates commands for the hand to grip an object. The advance could lead to improvements in future brain-computer interfaces that provide people with severe paraly ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2015 - 11:30am
- Brain, Rhythm, and Music
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My attention was recently drawn to a link to the Science Codex, which begins: ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 4 2015 - 9:41am
- Paleo Diet? Big Brains Needed Carbs
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Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution. It is widely accepted that brain size increase is partly linked to changes in diet over the last 3 million years, and increases in m ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 9:30am
- Music To Help People With Epilepsy
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The brains of people with epilepsy appear to react to music differently from the brains of those who do not have the disorder, a finding that could lead to new therapies to prevent seizures, according to research presented at the American Psychological As ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2015 - 8:01am
- Faux Equality: Pretending Both Sexes Have The Same Brain
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Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, according to a new study of a brain region involved in learning and memory and responses to stress and epilepsy. Many brain disorders vary between the sexes, but how biology and culture contr ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2015 - 8:00am
- There Is No Dementia Epidemic
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The notion of a dementia epidemic has been a big concern in ageing societies across the globe for some time. With the extension of life expectancy it seems to be an inevitable disaster – one of the “greatest enemies of humanity”, according to UK prime min ...
Article - The Conversation - Aug 21 2015 - 6:30am
- Why We're Smarter Than Chickens
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Toronto researchers have discovered that a single molecular event in our cells could hold the key to how we evolved to become the smartest animal on the planet. Benjamin Blencowe, a professor in the University of Toronto's Donnelly Centre and Banbury ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2015 - 4:39pm
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