Neuroscience

Sleeping Beauty And Herpes Team Up On Brain Diseases

Neuroscientists have forged an interesting partnership with some unlikely molecular characters to accelerate their fight against diseases of the brain and nervous system. Researchers have brought together the herpes virus and a molecule known as Sleeping B ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2010 - 12:40pm

Diagnosing Autism With MEG

A team of radiologists publishing in Autism Research says that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) process sound and language a fraction of a second slower than children without ASDs, and measuring magnetic signals that mark this delay may becom ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2010 - 4:39pm

Music Sounds Like Moving People

Joggers love their head phones. If you ask them why, they’ll tell you it keeps them motivated. The right song can transform what is by all rights an arduous half hour of ascetic masochism into an exhilarating whirlwind (or, in my case, into what feels like ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Jan 12 2010 - 10:52am

Vitamin E Prevents Brain Damage After Stroke

Blocking the function of an enzyme called cPLA2 with a specific kind of vitamin E can prevent nerve cells from dying after a stroke, new research published in the Journal of Neurochemistry suggests. Using mouse brain cells, scientists found that the tocotr ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2010 - 7:33pm

Loss Of Smell Function May Predict Onset Of Alzheimer's

 Loss of smell function may predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the January 13 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The research links a loss of smell function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) model animals ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2010 - 12:18pm

Researchers Map Auditory Feedback Pathway For Vocal Learning

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified neurons in the songbird brain that convey the auditory feedback needed to learn a song. Their research, published in Neuron, lays the foundation for improving human speech, for example, in peopl ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2010 - 1:27pm

Drowsiness, Staring Telltale Signs Of Alzheimer's

Older people who suffer "mental lapses," or episodes when their thinking seems disorganized or illogical, may be more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than people who do not have these lapses, according to a study published in the Janua ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2010 - 6:33pm

The Neurobiology Of How Brain Cells Process Mathematical Rules

Children learn basic mathematical rules such as 'less than' and 'greater than' because they are the foundation of mathematical operations.  As adults, intelligent behavior requires strategic processing of numbers and abstract quantity i ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2010 - 4:28pm

Stem Cell-Derived Neurons May Help Treat ALS

Stem cell-derived neurons can fully integrate into the brains of young animals, according to new research published in the the Journal of Neuroscience. Healthy brains have stable and precise connections between cells that are necessary for normal behavior, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:01pm

Neuroscience In The Courtroom

In a new article published in WIREs Congnitive Science, researchers from Duke University and the NIH suggest that the latest cognitive science research has the potential to fundamentally change how the legal system operates. The team explains that Neurolaw ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2010 - 1:42pm