Neuroscience

From The Thalamus With Love: Second Case Of Synesthesia After Brain Injury Reported

A Toronto patient has become the second known person to have acquired synesthesia as a result of a brain injury, in this case a stroke.  Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which people experience more than one sense at the same time. They may &quo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2013 - 11:13am

Half Of Fibromyalgia Patients Have Evidence Of Nerve Damage

Fibromyalgia, widespread general muscle pain and fatigue, has no known causes or effective treatments but small-fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN) has a clear pathology and is known to be caused by specific medical conditions, some of which can be treated and so ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2013 - 4:33pm

Why Cocaine Addicts Tend To Be Skinny

Cocaine use may cause profound metabolic changes which can result in dramatic weight gain during recovery, a distressing phenomenon that can lead to relapse- the reason is because chronic cocaine use may reduce the body's ability to store fat, the au ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2013 - 12:30pm

Coarticulation, Sign Language And Piano Fingers

There is a phenomenon in speech called coarticulation, in which certain sounds are produced differently depending on the sounds that come before or after them. For example, though the letter n is usually pronounced with the tongue pressed near the middle ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2013 - 10:26am

Near-Death Experiences Verified? Dying Brains Show Electrical Signatures Of Consciousness

Near-death experiences may have found a new grounding in science. Whether and how the dying brain is capable of generating conscious activity has been vigorously debated but the near-death experiences reported by cardiac arrest survivors worldwide may be ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2013 - 6:10pm

Is A Treatment To Stop Alzheimer's Disease Before The First Symptoms On The Horizon?

New research just out in the journal Science Translational Medicine opens the door for treatments capable of stopping Alzheimer’s disease (AD) before its first symptoms, that is to say before crucial damage occurs. In fact, while AD is a devastating disord ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 13 2013 - 3:45am

Hypnotic Suggestion Can Generate Automatic Hallucinations- Study

The nature of hypnotically suggested changes in perception has been controversial throughout the history of hypnosis.  The major current hypotheses of hypnosis hold that we always actively use our own imagination to bring about the effects of a suggestion ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2013 - 9:23am

Study Casts Doubt On Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency MS Hypothesis

There is no evidence that impaired blood flow or blockage in the veins of the neck or head is involved in multiple sclerosis, according to a new paper in an open access journal. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2013 - 7:00am

Oxytocin, Facial Expressions And Autism: Making The Brain Take Notice

Difficulty in registering and responding to facial expressions is a characteristic of autism and somr functional imaging studies claim that individuals with autism, and its very wide modern spectrum of disorders, display altered brain activations when pro ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2013 - 10:48am

Musical Hallucinations Of Lost Memories- A Case Study

A new case study outlines the instance of a 60-year-old woman who suddenly began hearing music, as if a radio were playing at the back of her head. She couldn't identify the music but when she hummed or sang the tunes, her husband was able to recogni ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2013 - 12:59pm