Neuroscience

Autistic Kids Can Outgrow Difficulty With Visual Cues And Sounds

High-functioning autistic children appear able to outgrow a critical social communication disability. Younger children with autism have trouble integrating the auditory and visual cues associated with speech, but the researchers found that the problem cle ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2013 - 1:29pm

Shutting Off Neurons Helps Bullied Mice Overcome Depression

A group of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurons, the neurotransmitters which inhibit other cells, shown to contribute to symptoms like social withdrawal and increased anxiety, may lead to  a new drug target for depression and other mood disorders.   It ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2013 - 4:30am

Organoids Get Cerebral

Organoids, those laboratory-created tissue structures designed to mimic human organ functions, are now getting into your head. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 29 2013 - 5:25pm

Weekend Science: Learn To Echolocate Like A Bat

Okay Daredevil, this will take some time and some work, but so does playing a guitar- a group of biologists have determined that humans can learn to echolocate the way bats do. It's well known that blind people develop keener hearing and they even lea ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2013 - 6:00am

Could A Treatment For Parkinson’s Reverse The Effects Of Early Life Trauma?

A stressful pregnancy might be the last thing a future mother needs, but it is to her unborn baby that this stress spells real trouble. All because stress hormones (called glucocorticoids or GCs) can disrupt foetal brain development, leading to serious be ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 28 2013 - 4:47am

Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Is Alzheimer's Missing Link, Says Study

Researchers have discovered a protein that is the missing link in the complicated chain of events that lead to Alzheimer's disease. They also found that blocking the protein with an existing drug can restore memory in mice with brain damage that mimi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 2:37pm

Selectively Erasing Unwanted Memories

The human brain is adept at linking seemingly random details into a cohesive memory that can trigger myriad associations — some good and some not so good. For recovering addicts or individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), unwanted memories c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2013 - 5:33pm

EPHX2: New Genetic Clue To Anorexia?

Anorexia nervosa is a multifactorial neuropsychiatric condition that affects as many as one percent of women in the Western world, and has an estimated mortality as high as 10 percent, making it perhaps the deadliest of mental illnesses. Anorexics severely ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2013 - 3:24pm

Discovery: Where And How Imagination Occurs In Human Brains

Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from- in other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other incredibly diverse behaviors? ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2013 - 7:13pm

Brain May Be Hard-Wired For Chronic Pain

The brain's structure may predict whether a person will suffer chronic lower back pain, according to researchers who used brain scans and say the results support the growing idea that the brain plays a critical role in chronic pain, a concept that ma ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2013 - 9:16am