Neuroscience
- Predict Your Video Game Aptitude Using MRI
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Want to know if you can be the king of Donkey Kong? A group of researchers say they can predict "with unprecedented accuracy" how well you will do on a complex task like a strategic video game- by analyzing activity in a specific region of you ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2011 - 9:34pm
- The Chaos Of Brain Signaling
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The dynamics behind signal transmission in the brain are extremely chaotic. The brain codes information in the form of electrical pulses, known as spikes. Each of the brain's approximately 100 billion interconnected neurons acts as both a receiver an ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2011 - 3:22pm
- Did Epilepsy Cause Chopin's Hallucinations?
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Frédéric Chopin, composer of "The Last Waltz" and poet of the piano, suffered from tuberculosis and regularly hallucinated. Even for those in the Romantic Revolution, like Liszt, Schumann and Victor Hugo, among others, Chopin was considered frail ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2011 - 5:31pm
- Bad Diets Cause Depression?
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Can olive oil prevent mental illness? A new study says the ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increases the risk of suffering depression and that olive oil protects against this mental illness. The study by researchers from Navarra and Las Palmas ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2011 - 7:49pm
- Can There Be A 'Universal' IQ Test?
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Measuring 'intelligence' is a much art as science. Even using the word intelligence sends people down a philosophical rabbit hole, disagreeing about what the word means. So can there be a 'universal' intelligence test that measures... ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2011 - 2:29pm
- How The Brain Knows What The Nose Knows
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Mice have a healthy concept of fear and so they fear the scent of a predator. While it seems obvious that brains quickly figure out with a sniff that a predator, like a cat, is nearby, the mechanism is not well understood. In a Nature study, researchers ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2011 - 9:18pm
- Ecstasy- Now With Less Cognitive Impairment
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The schedule 1 illicit drug known as ecstasy has been used by up to 12 million people in the United States and millions more worldwide. P ast research has suggested that ecstasy users perform worse than others on some tests of mental ability but there ha ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2011 - 8:12pm
- Neuroscientists Create Perception Of Having Three Arms
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How do we 'experience' our own bodies? It has long been believed that our body image is limited by our innate body plan, so we cannot truly experience having more than one head, two arms and two legs but brain scientists at the Swedish medica ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2011 - 6:21pm
- JAMA- Cell Phones Do Affect Brain Glucose But Effect Is Unknown
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A preliminary study in JAMA (JAMA. 2011;305[8]808-814.) has found that 50-minute cell phone use was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism, a marker of brain activity, in the region closest to the phone antenna, but that is not known to have an ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2011 - 9:31am
- Can't Dance? Blame GABA, Not ABBA
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If you saw the film version of "Mamma Mia!" you may have wondered why some of the actors could act, sing and dance and some, clearly, could not. A new study in Current Biology says that people who are fast to learn a simple sequence of finger mot ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2011 - 5:13pm
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