Neuroscience

Scared Out Of Your Mind: Halloween, Fear And The Brain

Children and adults alike are digging out those spooky costumes ready for a celebration. We’ve reached that time of year again: Halloween. October 31 is dedicated to remembering the dead. We’ve all experienced fear, but Halloween is the particular time of ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 19 2024 - 1:32pm

Drunk Tree Fall Hard: Older Adult Alcohol Doubles Risk Of Brain Bleeds From Falls

Alcohol is the best-marketed carcinogen out there. Cigarettes and obesity only wish they were able to devote the money to positive imaging that alcohol, one of the top three lifestyle killers, receives. Instead, governments devote billions to education and ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2024 - 9:27am

C1QL1- Multiple Sclerosis Research Tackles How The Brain Replaces Lost Myelin

The neurons in our brains are protected by an insulating layer called myelin. In diseases like multiple sclerosis, this protective layer is damaged and lost, leading to death of neurons and gradual disability. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2024 - 9:51am

Normal Sleep Duration 50% Less Common After A Stroke

Getting enough sleep is correlated to brain and heart health and after a stroke that is even more important. A new survey finds that is when people who need it are least likely to get it.  A cohort of 39,559 people were asked every two years how much sleep ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2024 - 11:26am

Marijuana's Impact On Working Memory Revealed In Brain Scans

A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to 36 from the Human Connectome Project collected between August 2012 and 2015 and found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working m ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2025 - 2:46pm

Prosthetic Hearing: Soft Brainstem Implant One Step Closer To Human Trials

The cochlear implant has helped many regain hearing functionality and a new study shows a potential roadmap for those whose cochlear nerve is too damaged; the auditory brainstem implant. The current auditory brainstem implant and its rigid structure does n ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2025 - 12:25pm

Becoming The Music: How Our Brains Sync With Sound To Create Emotion

Some psychologists believe our brains and bodies don’t just understand music, we become it. We physically resonate with it. They call their belief Neural Resonance Theory (NRT).  They use Theory is in the name, but it is not a theory like gravity or evolut ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2025 - 1:18pm

A Decline In Financial Skills May Be A Harbinger Of Alzheimer’s

It is a time-honored tradition for the young to ridicule the old and vice-versa but some warning signs in the elderly may be serious. Elderly people are often financially savvy, and get more so with age- unless Alzheimer’s begins to set in, according to a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2025 - 9:11am

Chinese Researchers Are Rewiring Brains Using Interfaces

Human evolution and culture have been shaped by our increasing ability to communicate. A new review from China believes that brain-computer interfaces mark the next leap: a direct connection between mind and machine. They note breakthroughs in neural signa ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2025 - 10:03am

Inflammatory Bowel Disease May Accelerate Dementia

You have probably heard the phrase “follow your gut” – often used to mean trusting your instinct and intuition. But in the context of the gut-brain axis, the phrase takes on a more literal meaning. Scientific research increasingly shows that the brain and ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 18 2025 - 11:18am