Neuroscience

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

Brains Benefit From Meditation- Here's How

People who meditate seem to be able 'switch off' areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a new brain imaging study  published in the Proceedings of the Nationa ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2011 - 7:03am

Violent Video Games Alter Young Brains

The controversy over whether or not violent video games are potentially harmful to players has been debated for many years, even making it to the Supreme Court in 2010. There has been little scientific evidence demonstrating that the games have a prolonged ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2011 - 4:00pm

Want Someone Who Listens? Get A Baby

Babies love to communicate and they're great listeners, even early on.   New research shows that during the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2011 - 9:13am

Hypothalamus Changes: Obesity Alters The Brain Area Involved In Body Weight Control

The number of people with one or more of the adverse complications of obesity, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease is rapidly increasing. Drugs designed to treat obesity have shown limited efficacy and have been associated with serious side effect ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2011 - 5:40pm

This Brain Region Activates To Rationalize "Selling Out"

A neuro-imaging study found that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered money to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold. Sacred values- those 'sell your soul' issues- prom ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2012 - 1:01pm

Men Have Better Memories- Of Unpleasant Experiences, Anyway

If you've ever wondered why the man in your life can't recall your discussion of organic squash from 20 minutes ago but he can vividly recall the time 11 years ago when you insulted his "Captain Planet ad the Planeteers" figurines, ther ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2012 - 12:31pm

Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting For Artificial Brains

I can feel it in the air, so thick I can taste it. Can you? It's the we're-going-to-build-an-artificial-brain-at-any-moment feeling. It's exuded into the atmosphere from news media plumes (" IBM Aims to Build Artificial Human Brain Wit ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Feb 2 2012 - 10:09am