Neuroscience

Being Pre-Term Is Not A Risk Factor For Inability To Do Math

Dyscalculia is a broad term for difficulty in understanding numbers, arithmetic and mathematics. It is different than 'I am not good at math', people with dyscalculia have difficulty with counting and adding, understanding patterns- when you shou ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2014 - 4:31pm

Implanted Neurons Made From Adult Stem Cells Become Part Of The Brain

Scientists have grafted neurons reprogrammed from skin cells into the brains of mice with long-term stability for the first time. Six months after implantation, the neurons had become fully functionally integrated into the brain.  That's equivalent t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2014 - 2:53pm

Oxytocin Does Not Cause Autism

Autism is not caused by a deficiency of oxytocin,  according to new findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2014 - 4:05pm

Altered Brain Metabolism Boosts Aggression

Scientists report that they can crank up insect aggression simply by interfering with a basic metabolic pathway. Their study of fruit flies and honey bees shows a direct, causal link between brain metabolism (how the brain generates the energy it needs to ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2014 - 3:45pm

Why Using 100% Of Your Brain Would Make You 0% Smarter

If you've ever been on the freeway and saw the guy next to you holding his coffee with one hand, texting with the other, and steering with his kneecap while doing 80, you might find it quite plausible that humans only use 10% of their brain. This is ...

Article - Ariana Anderson - Aug 6 2014 - 11:44am

This Will Quadruple Your Dementia Risk

A long-term, large-scale population-based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers has found a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) if they were diagnosed even with mild ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2014 - 12:00pm

Lipids Are Said To Boost The Brain- But How?

It is said that consuming oils with high polyunsaturated fatty acid content, in particular those containing omega-3s, is beneficial for the health, but is that true, or is it just epidemiologtists finding two curves that go the same direction and declaring ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2014 - 10:30am

Study Finds Neuroprotective Effects Of Asiaticoside

Asiaticoside is the main saponin constituent of Centella asiatica, a plant long used in the Ayurvedic system of medicine that has become popular for human collagen synthesis applications, like anti-wrinkle treatments. In the central nervous system, Asiati ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2014 - 6:30am

Study: Testosterone In Men Increases Brain Response To Threats

Testosterone, a steroid hormone, contributes to aggressive behavior in males, but the neural circuits through which testosterone exerts these effects have not been clear. Prior studies found that the administration of a single dose of testosterone influen ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2014 - 7:30am

Functional 3-D Brain-Like Tissue Created!

Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can be kept alive in the lab for more than two months. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2014 - 6:00pm