Neuroscience

Alternative PE For Teens On Autism Spectrum

When Dr. Valerie Paradiz invited me to join the staff of her brainchild school for those on the autism spectrum called the ASPIE School in Boiceville, NY, I was most honored and extremely excited. The school, one of the first in the nation at the time, pro ...

Article - Ron Rubio - Apr 28 2010 - 6:23pm

Aerobic Exercise Is Good For The Mind

Regular aerobic exercise keeps you physically healthy, but scientists are beginning to uncover evidence that it may also improve your cognition. Researchers writing in Neuroscience say they have found that regular exercise speeds learning and improves bloo ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2010 - 6:38pm

Autism: Does Increased Parental Age Mean Increased Risk?

The possibility that autism is more common in offspring of older parents has generated considerable interest. To investigate the theory, a study using data from 10 US study sites participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Apr 26 2010 - 10:28pm

Synaesthetes Wanted For University Synaesthesia Research

The Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science has just opened as a new multi-disciplinary research centre at the University of Sussex. One of their first projects is an investigation into synaesthesia and they are looking for volunteer synaesthetes who woul ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Apr 28 2010 - 9:46am

In The Brain, Your Pain Is My Gain

If you're thirsty and you drink, your brain feels pleasure. You feel this same pleasure, borne of satisfying a physical need, when someone you envy is brought low. We call this feeling schadenfreude, but researchers at the National Institute of Radio ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jun 12 2010 - 12:56pm

When Your Mind Wanders, Your Eyes Blink

Blinking eyes might be a sign of a wandering mind, according to a new study in Psychological Science. Researchers from the University of Waterloo found that when subjects' minds wandered, they blinked more, setting up a tiny physical barrier between t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2010 - 10:10am

Multiple Brain Regions Wired For Language, Study Finds

There is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species, according to a new study in the latest edition of PNAS Instead, humans rely on several regions of the brain, each de ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2010 - 6:57pm

Smelly Feet And The Fireworks In Your Brain

For many hundreds of years, people in Eastern Europe have treated epileptic seizures with the quick administration of shoe smell. This smell (and specifically this smell) has the power to arrest the seizure, or so says the folk wisdom. Fact or fiction? ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jul 3 2010 - 11:56am

Nails And The Human Brain (Part 1)

Here are a couple wonderful instances of people accidentally or intentionally driving nails deep into their gray matter. Can't get enough nails in the brain? Don't worry—I'll post another couple tomorrow. ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Aug 29 2010 - 2:06am

Nails And The Human Brain (Part 2)

Yesterday I posted a couple splendid instances of people driving nails into their brains. And here, for those of you that think (as I do) that the only thing better than nails-in-the-brain stories is MORE nails-in-the-brain stories, are a couple more. Sta ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Aug 29 2010 - 6:06am