Neuroscience

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

Concussion May Impact Men And Women Differently

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

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

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

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