Neuroscience

Total Recall: From Science Fiction To Science Fact

A group of researchers have erased memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals' reaction to past events. Then they put them back. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimula ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 12:36am

Marijuana Use Linked To Impaired Sleep Quality

New research in the journal Sleep and being presented Wednesday, June 4th in Minneapolis at SLEEP 2014 suggests that marijuana use is associated with impaired sleep quality. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 10:01am

Why Autism Is More Common In Males? Children With Autism Had Elevated Levels Of Steroids In The Womb

A new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry has linked children who later developed autism with exposure to elevated levels of steroid hormones (for example testosterone, progesterone and cortisol) in the womb. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 10:03am

Forgetting Is Important Too

The recent study from UC-San Diego on memories in rats, published in the June 1 Nature, confirms the long-standing suspicion that memories are formed based on the strength of the synapses, and deteriorate as the connections of those synapses weaken. More i ...

Blog Post - Shannon Rapp - Jun 13 2014 - 1:07pm

Is Sign Language Inborn? Kid Gestures Organize Into Language-Like Sequences

Young children instinctively use a ‘language-like’ structure to communicate through gestures, a result which suggests that children are not just learning language from older generations, but instead their preference for communication has shaped how languag ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 2:02am

Why Crows Are Intelligent- Working Memory Neurons

An important prerequisite for intelligence is a good short-term memory which can store and process the information needed for ongoing processes. This 'working memory' is a kind of mental notepad – without it, we could not follow a conversation, d ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 9:01am

Small Molecule May Help Battle Depression- And Antidepressants Change It

Antidepressant drugs are common in the developed world and are among the most prescribed medications in North America. Though antidepressants are effective for some, there is a lot of variability in how individuals respond to antidepressant treatment.   A ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 4:20pm

Free Will Is Just Random Fluctuations In Brain Noise?

A recent study from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis makes a bold conjecture; that our ability to make choices — and sometimes mistakes — might arise from random fluctuations in the brain's background electrical no ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2014 - 8:17am

Fighting Off Illness, Rather Than Illness Itself, Causes Sleep Deprivation

There is a common perception is that if you are sick, you sleep more, and some people do- but a new study found that sickness induced insomnia is quite common. Fighting off illness – rather than the illness itself – causes sleep deprivation and affects mem ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2014 - 8:30am

APC Gene To Learning And Autistic-Like Disabilities

Decreased cognitive ability and autistic-like behaviors have been linked to disruption of the function of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene by Tufts researchers who deleted the gene from select neurons in the developing mouse brain. The mice showe ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2014 - 8:53am