Neuroscience

GRIN3A And The Hunt For A Genetic Cause Of Schizophrenia

 Schizophrenia is thought to have a substantial genetic background which is also, to some extent, population-specific. Genome-wide searches have revealed many numerous genomic variants with weak effects, but the remaining 'missing heritability' ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2013 - 10:14am

Elite Athletes Are Cognitive Elites Too

The term 'elites' gets a bad rap in modern culture, mostly because political pundits use it to mean 'me and people I like'- elitism- rather than understanding what elite means. Yet in sports we still recognize that there are elites. Do ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2013 - 4:09pm

Enlightening Frightening Memories And Anxiety In The Brain’s Memory Centre

It is well established that the hippocampus is central for learning and memory, encoding mnemonic data about past experiences and connections. However, the role of the hippocampus in emotional processes is less clear, although there have been inklings of ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Mar 26 2013 - 5:16pm

Have 5 Minutes? Now You Can Do A Brain Imaging Study

fMRI has always been a little misused, to people who know what they are talking about. 20 years after it was first done, the promise seems to have been overrun by agenda-based cultural mapping. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 28 2013 - 12:01pm

Neuroprediction: Brain Scans Foretell Criminal Behavior

The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque says that brain scans can predict the likelihood of whether a criminal will re-offend following release from prison. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2013 - 3:01pm

Hallucinations Of Musical Notation: The Neural Basis

Building on work done by Dominic ffytche et al in 2000, which delineates more than a dozen types of hallucinations, particularly in relation to people with Charles Bonnet syndrome (a condition that causes patients with visual loss to have complex visual h ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2013 - 10:53am

How Reliable Is Neuroscience Research? Not Very, Says Analysis

New research has questioned the reliability of neuroscience studies, concluding that most had an average power of around 20 percent – a finding which means the chance of the average study discovering the effect being investigated is only one in five.  The ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2013 - 5:49pm

Your Brain Is Good At Math, Even If You Aren't

Brain studies are a mass of contradictions. When you leave your job and your home and your technology behind for a vacation, you 'disconnect' some claim. "Actually, you've just given your brain a whole new challenge," says Thomas ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2013 - 10:16am

Cellular Alchemy: Skin Cells Become Functional Brain Cells

A technique reported in Nature Biotechnology directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other so-called myelin disorders.   Myelinating cells provide a vital sheath of insulati ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2013 - 9:14am

Mind-Boggling Numbers: Genetic Expression In The Human Brain

President Obama’s ...

Article - Rebecca Goldin - Apr 16 2013 - 11:11am