Neuroscience

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have obtained 3-D images of the vesicles and filaments involved in communication between neurons. The effort was made possible a novel technique in electron microscopy, which cools cells so quickly ...

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

Researchers Aim To Catch Alzheimer's Before Symptoms Appear

Through the use of sophisticated brain-imaging techniques, researchers at UCLA say they have been able to predict a brain's progression to Alzheimer's by measuring subtle changes in brain structure over time, changes that occur long before sympto ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2010 - 7:41pm

Is Smoking A Risk Factor For Alzheimer's Or Not?

Scientists at the University of California San Francisco say a majority of published studies analyzing the relationship between Alzheimer's disease and smoking indicates that the habit is a significant risk factor for the disease. Researchers also fou ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2010 - 11:50am

How Bats (Indirectly) Hit Their Targets

Research conducted by scientists at the Weizmann Institute and the University of Maryland reveals that bats, which 'see' with beams of sound waves, skew their beams off-center when they want to locate an object. The research, which recently appea ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2010 - 7:06pm

Rare Brain Lesions May Explain Loss Aversion In Humans

A study of the phenomenon known as loss aversion in two patients with lesions to the amygdala, a region deep within the brain involved in emotions and decision-making, may help explain how we make decisions and what makes us dislike the thought of losing m ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2010 - 6:12pm

Does Selective Brain Damage Underpin Spirituality?

Although it is well established that all behaviors and experiences, spiritual or otherwise, must originate in the brain, information on the causative link between brain activity and spirituality is lacking. Neuroimaging studies have associated activity wit ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2010 - 1:18pm

Sound Regulated By Two Sets Of Synapses, Study Finds

Researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain's auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times. The discovery, detailed this week in Neuron, challenges a long- ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2010 - 1:58pm

Neuroscientists May Be Able To Predict Our Spending Habits

There's a reason attractive human faces are used to market just about everything consumers purchase today – when people see pretty faces, their brains begin computing how much the experience is worth. New brain-imaging research shows it's even po ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2010 - 6:46pm

What’s In A Name? Genetic Overlap Between Major Psychiatric Disorders

The criteria used to assign patients to specific psychiatric disease categories are set out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association. (There is also a World Health Organisation equivale ...

Article - Kevin Mitchell - Feb 17 2010 - 5:00pm

Did Music Evolve Before Language?

Did music evolve before language? It's not a trivial idea and there has been debate about it since literally the days of Darwin- Sir Charles himself proposed the notion in "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" that a 'm ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2010 - 5:53pm