Neuroscience
- MAO-A Enzyme Implicated In Postpartum Depression
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Some estimates claim that within the first week after giving birth, up to 70 percent of women experience symptoms of the 'baby blues'- obviously a different thing than clinical postpartum depression, which perhaps 13 percent of new mothers show s ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2010 - 11:43am
- PO Enzyme Linked To Bipolar Disorder
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Lithium has been used for more than 50 years in the treatment manic depression, clinically termed bipolar disorder, though no one is sure why it has been beneficial. Don't be concerned. We don't know why aspirin works either, but we still use i ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2010 - 11:12am
- Inhibition In The Brain... More Than A Simple Game
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Inhibition in the brain seems simple but there is an underlying complexity that makes it one of the most challenging aspects of brain function to understand. Its kind of like soccer, it seems to be a simple game, but it is difficult to play simple. The m ...
Article - Kathy Murphy - Jun 28 2010 - 6:10pm
- Men: When You Compete Are You A Bonobo Or A Chimp?
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Men will sometimes blame hormones for how women act but it isn't just one gender- one thing that sets off hormone changes in men is competition, says a new PNAS study. The average man experiences hormone changes similar to the henpecked bonobo prior t ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2010 - 4:39pm
- The Adaptive Brain In Action
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Neural circuitry is constantly changing to meet the challenges of its environment and ahead of his presentation on July 6th, sponsored by The Kavli Foundation, at the 7th FENS Forum of European Neuroscience in Amsterdam, Tobias Bonhoeffer, director at the ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2010 - 8:00am
- IVF Rate in Israel is 3.5%, not Autism Rate
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Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 3 2010 - 8:17am
- The Science Case For Zoning Out: Brain Stem Cells Need Rest Too
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Brain stem cells remain dormant until needed to make more neurons but little is known about the molecular guards that keep them quiet- or 'wake' them up. Scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies say they have identified the sig ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2010 - 8:00am
- Why We Have Eureka Moments
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"My plan for today: 1. Pick up dry cleaning. 2. Go to dentist. 3. Think up brilliant idea.” Good luck with that third bullet. Big ideas can’t be planned like growing tomatoes in one’s garden. We stumble upon ideas, and although we can sometimes recall ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Jul 6 2010 - 3:37pm
- Getting Fired Up About Synapses
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You may have noticed that a lot of posts about neuroscience research on scientificblogging.com describe new discoveries about the synapse. If you are not a neuroscientists you might wonder why we get so fired up about the synapse (pun intended). Well the ...
Article - Kathy Murphy - Jul 13 2010 - 9:31am
- The Neurons That Tell You To Quit
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The basal ganglia is a series of highly connected brain areas localised deep in the cerebral cortex that recently has attracted interest of neuroscientists when it was linked to learning, and discovered to be affected in a number of disorders of the addic ...
Article - Catarina Amorim - Jul 23 2010 - 10:39am
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