Neuroscience

Ritalin Reduces Impulsivity In Small Study

Beginning two decades ago, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses jumped to 11 percent of American children aged 4 to 17 even though neuroscientists still did not know biologically what ADHD is.  ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2013 - 1:19pm

Gender Of Speaker May Affect Language Processing

Do we process language we hear without regard to anything about the speaker? Perhaps or perhaps not. A small psychological experiment using University of Kansas undergraduates who were paid to participate and spoke Spanish found that the sex of a speaker ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2013 - 3:24pm

Go To Bed: Brain Connections In Young Children Strengthen During Sleep

The connections between the left and the right hemispheres of the brain strengthen in young children while they sleeo, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new paper. Scientists have known that the brain changes drastically during early c ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2013 - 4:40pm

Male And Female Brains Have Different Gene Expression- May Explain Autism Differences

There are widespread differences in how genes are expressed in men and women's brains, based on post-mortem adult human brain and spinal cord samples from over 100 individuals analyzed by byscientists at the University College London Institute of Neu ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2013 - 9:13am

Sorry NPR Listeners, This Meat, Egg And Dairy Nutrient Is Essential For Brain Development

Asparagine, which is found in foods such as meat, eggs, and dairy products, was once considered non-essential because it is also produced naturally by the body. And that is true, for every organ except the brain, where the amino acid is essential for norm ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 7:00am

SCN Neurons: Controlling Our Circadian Rhythms

In the modern world of long-distance travel, many people have experienced circadian-rhythm disruption, especially after traveling across time zones. The physiology that affects modulating our biological "clocks" to combat jet lag or cope with al ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2013 - 12:21pm

Low Vitamin D May Cause Damage To Brain

A new paper in Free Radical Biology and Medicine suggests that a diet low in vitamin D causes damage to the brain. In addition to being essential for maintaining bone health, the new evidence found that vitamin D serves important roles in other organs and ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2013 - 5:30am

DARPA on the Brain

We've highlighted in the past some interesting activity from  DARPA  (read more  via Neuron News from Dynamic Patterns Research) with its involvement in neurological research and technology developments. ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Dec 3 2013 - 12:05am

Lower Test Scores Linked To Non-Concussion Head Impacts In Contact Sports

The stereotype is that athletes are often less smart than their non-athletic peers and a new paper says it may not be that athletes go into more physical pursuits but that the sports themselves may lead to lower test scores. Two groups of Dartmouth athlet ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2013 - 12:55am

Brain Waves Are Time And Voltage

In a Neuron paper, Institute of Science and Technology Austria post-doctoral fellow Alejandro Pernía-Andrade and Professor Peter Jonas outline the synaptic mechanisms underlying oscillations at the dentate gyrus, the main entrance of the hippocampus). Bui ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2013 - 7:30am