Neuroscience

Brainpunk- "Brain Games" Messes With Your Mind

This weekend is the first episode in a three-part "Brain Games" series on the National Geographic channel.  Since National Geographic does not have a show on the 'science' of ghost hunting, and since statistics show 97% of Internet read ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 8 2011 - 9:49am

Laser Worms!

I'm back, after an extended hiatus due to my big move to Chicago to begin grad school.  I’ve been pummeled by work for the past month, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet. ...

Article - Sean Gibbons - Oct 9 2011 - 8:14pm

Exercise As Effective As Drugs In Preventing Migraines

Good news for migraine sufferers.  Your treatment may have gotten a little cheaper.  Exercise is often prescribed as a treatment for migraine, though without sufficient scientific evidence that it really works, but research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2011 - 3:00pm

Violent Video Games Linked To Brain Changes And Decreased Emotional Control

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Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2011 - 11:18am

Spatial Navigation- The GPS In Our Brains

Rhythmic activity of nerve cells supports spatial navigation, say a group of researchers who recently showed that cells in the entorhinal cortex, important for spatial navigation, oscillate with individual frequencies. These frequencies depend on the posit ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2011 - 10:01am

David Eagleman's Incognito: Not The Masters Of Our Destinies

"[W]ho you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology."--David Eagleman Modern neuroscience is making advances in knowledge that our society is not keeping up with, may not be able to keep up with. David Eagleman explores these new inroad ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Oct 15 2011 - 8:53am

Brain fatigue

Recently, I read an article in the New York Times entitled Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? which presents neurological work showing contrary effects in people trying to exercise will power: more activity in the nucleus accumbens, the brain’s reward ce ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 18 2011 - 12:52pm

Aspergers Rule Processing

The issue at hand: a student with Asperger's Syndrome feels the teacher withholds recess breaks at a whim; the teacher feels that withholding recess is reinforcing the consequences of the student's actions.  From their personal viewpoints, each o ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 21 2011 - 4:15pm

Number Of Facebook Friends Linked To Brain Structures

Social networks on the internet have grown greatly in the past few years. None more than the near ubiquitous Facebook, with over 800 million active users, half of which log in on any given day. Yet, there is great variability in the size of the online soc ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Oct 22 2011 - 7:59am

A Neuroimaging Step Toward Reading Your Dreams

'Lucid' dreamers are people who claim they are aware that they are dreaming and can deliberately control their actions in dreams. When people dream that they are performing a particular action, a portion of the brain involved in the planning and ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2011 - 12:36pm