Neuroscience

Chemosignals: Stress Sweat Impacts How Women Are Perceived

A new study says it has confirmed for the first time that the smell of stress sweat does  significantly alter how women are perceived by both males and females. Research has shown the ability of human body odor to communicate information between individua ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2013 - 9:09am

I'm Okay And You're Not- The Science

If you talk to social scientists, egoism and narcissism appear are on the rise while empathy is on the decline. In recent years, the ability to put ourselves in other people's shoes has been deemed extremely important for our coexistence- nuclear bom ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2013 - 10:29am

How Brain Development In Kids Who Stutter Is Different

Children who stutter have less grey matter in key regions of the brain responsible for speech production than children who do not stutter, according to brain scans of 28 children ranging from five to 12 years old. Half the children were diagnosed with stu ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2013 - 12:48pm

Brain Releases Opiod Painkillers During Social Rejection Too

The brain may have its own way of easing social pain, according to a recent paper, and it involves the brain's natural painkiller system.  Combining brain scans with questionnaire results, they determined that people who score high on a personality t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2013 - 8:30am

The Brain Mechanisms Behind A Bizzare Symptom Of Narcolepsy

Normally muscles contract in order to support the body, but in a rare condition known as cataplexy the body's muscles "fall asleep" and become involuntarily paralyzed. Cataplexy is incapacitating because it leaves the affected individual aw ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2013 - 6:30am

Occupational Hazard? Teachers More Likely To Develop Speech And Language Disorders

Researchers have found an odd statistic; people with speech and language disorders are about 3.5 times more likely to be teachers than patients with Alzheimer's dementia.  Speech and language disorders are typically characterized by people losing the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2013 - 10:12am

Schizophrenia Linked To Abnormal Brain Waves

Schizophrenia patients often suffer from a breakdown of organized thought, accompanied by delusions or hallucinations- neuroscientists have observed the neural activity that appears to produce this disordered thinking and found that mice lacking the brain ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2013 - 5:10pm

Retired Football Player Brain Scans Show Profound Abnormalities

Worrisome news for retired American football players.  Though former players in a new preliminary study were not diagnosed with any neurological condition, brain imaging tests revealed unusual activity that correlated with how many times they had left the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2013 - 9:35am

Brains Flush Out Toxins During Sleep?

A study in mice has found that the space between brain cells may increase during sleep, allowing the brain to flush out toxins that build up during waking hours.  Get a good night's sleep- it may literally clear your mind. For centuries, scientists a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2013 - 4:33pm

Brain Areas That Process Spoken Language Impacted By Learning Dialects

Reading this article while someone else read a piece in People means your brain has already been shaped differently than that of the other person. Each experience sends us off on divergent branches, so imaging of brain areas used for understanding languag ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2013 - 10:49am