Neuroscience

Brain, Rhythm, and Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cannabis Use May Influence Brain Maturation In Young Males

Male teens who experiment with cannabis before age 16, and have a high genetic risk for schizophrenia, show a different brain development trajectory than low risk peers who use cannabis. The discovery, made from a combined analysis of over 1,500 youth, co ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2015 - 8:00am

Why Suspenseful Movies Keep Your Eyes Glued To The Screen

By: Michael Greshko, Inside Science – Some filmmakers really know how to get into their audience’s heads, new research suggests. Last month, a team led by Matt Bezdek, a cognitive psychologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, found that ...

Article - Michael Greshko - Aug 28 2015 - 12:23pm

Neuron Responsible For Alcoholism Found

Scientists have pinpointed a population of neurons in the brain that influences whether one drink leads to two, which could ultimately lead to a cure for alcoholism and other addictions. A new study finds that alcohol consumption alters the structure and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2015 - 6:30am

New Mechanism Discovered Behind Infant Epilepsy

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have discovered a new explanation for severe early infant epilepsy. Mutations in the gene encoding the protein KCC2 can cause the disease, hereby confirming an earlier theory ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2015 - 10:00am