Neuroscience

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

The Prefrontal Cortex Evolution and the Educational Process In Human Childhood

The phylogeny of the nervous system has been very well understood by evolutionary neuroscience. Since the first self-defense reactions (irritability) of the unicelular organisms, going through the procceses of centralization, cephalization, and tele-enceph ...

Blog Post - Arturo Pèrez-Arteaga - Oct 28 2011 - 11:26pm

Addiction's Brain Abnormalities Can Be Reversed

Researchers from the University of Minho in Portugal have discovered that rats exposed before birth to glucocorticoids (GC) not only show several brain abnormalities similar to those found in addicts, but become themselves susceptible to addiction (the glu ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 31 2011 - 10:44am

Robo-Plasticity: Brain Neurons Mimicked In Silicon

A computer that can learn?  There hasn't been meaningful improvement in robotics in 40 years and no AI improvements in 25, just faster chips doing things the old way, but researchers may have gotten a little closer with a a computer chip that mimics ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2011 - 1:44pm