Neuroscience

Night Owls Shouldn't Drive In The Morning

It's no secret that people who are tired don't perform well but a new study tackles the impact of being a morning person or a night owl on driving performance. By measuring people when they are out of sync with their "chronotype" wheth ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 9:22am

Early Life Stress Can Be Good For Developing Brains- Or Toxic

You can't coddle kids or their brains too much. Without a little bit of frustration and stress, they would never learn how to talk or read or do science. Without some physical stress, we would all be crawling from place to place. Stress helps us lear ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 2:50pm

Optogenetics And Jaws: Brain Control Now Without Being Inside Your Skull

Optogenetics is a technology that allows scientists to control brain activity by shining light on light-sensitive proteins that can suppress or stimulate electrical signals within cells.  In the last 15 years,  optogenetics has become a common laboratory ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 4:02pm

Revealed: What Happens In Female Brains During Courtship And Mating

Why do females sometimes ignore males and sometimes stop and pay attention? There are many conjectures: looking like Ryan Gosling seems to help but there are a lot of other variables: if the female is under the age of 30, a male being unemployed while he ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 10:17pm

Motörhead Scientifically Documented As One Of The Most Hardcore Rock Bands On Earth

Motörhead concert goers may have to sign a waiver before they buy tickets. If that band were in California, they would have to wear a Proposition 65 warning on their shirts. Why? Because they can give you brain damage, according to a Case Report published ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2019 - 3:12pm

A Dominant Brain Hemisphere For Handedness- And Language

Using a large psychometric and brain imaging database, researchers in the Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle (CNRS/CEA/Université de Bordeaux) say they have determined that the location of language areas in the brain is independent of left- or right ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 9:28am

Sleep Deprived? That's What Psychosis Is Like

24 hours of sleep deprivation can lead healthy people to a condition similar to the symptoms of schizophrenia, which could serve as a model system for the development of drugs to treat psychosis. In psychosis, there is a loss of contact with reality and t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 2:58pm

Cinnamon Halts Progression Of Parkinson's Disease In Study

A new study found that using cinnamon, the common food spice and flavoring material, can reverse the biomechanical, cellular and anatomical changes that occur in the brains of mice with Parkinson's disease.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 9:10am

Cracking The Code Of How The Brain Processes Emotions

Feelings are personal and subjective, just like all of psychology, but the human brain turns them into a standard code that objectively represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people, according to a new paper. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 2:27pm

Chimpanzee Intelligence Is Gene Dependent

As with people, some chimpanzees are smarter than others, and as with people, a lot of that variation in intelligence depends on the genes that individuals carry and pass on from one generation to the next. A new study found no effect of either sex or rea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 1:30pm