Neuroscience
- Can The Parietal Cortex Predict Risky Behavior?
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Some people avoid risk while others will roll the dice with wealth, health, and safety. Is it just personality? Media influence? Researchers led by Ifat Levy, assistant professor in comparative medicine and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine believe ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 5:53pm
- Can Blood Type Affect Memory?
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People with blood type AB may be more likely to develop memory loss in later years than people with other blood types, according to a paper in Neurology, but what does that really mean? AB is the least common blood type, found in about 4 percent of the U. ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 5:30pm
- B1 Deficit Linked To Brain Damage
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Thiamine- vitamin B1- can potentially cause a fatal brain disorder called Wernicke encephalopathy. Wernicke encephalopathy typically occurs in people who have disorders such as alcoholism and anorexia that lead to malnourishment and is an example of the w ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 4:30pm
- How Much Sleep Do We Need?
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Most adults need seven to nine hours sleep to function at their best. Credit: Jiuck/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Gemma Paech, University of South Australia ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 13 2014 - 8:00am
- In Rats, Nicotine Withdrawal Reduces Response To Rewards
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Cigarette smoking is considered a leading cause of preventable death worldwide and implicated in as many as 440,000 deaths in the United States each year by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States, about 20 percent of peo ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 10:14am
- People With Blood Type AB More At Risk Of Cognitive Decline And Dementia
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Don't bank on it. Credit: Sabinurce By Kristine Alexander, University of Vermont ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 17 2014 - 5:01pm
- Watching Neurons Learn: Learning New Ideas Is More Difficult
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By Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science-- Researchers in Pittsburgh, using a brain-computer interface, have shown why learning something similar to what you already know--a repertoire of previous knowledge--makes learning new things easier. Learning unfamiliar ...
Article - Joel Shurkin - May 25 2015 - 11:12am
- 'Sleep Node' In The Brain Discovered
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Researchers at Harvard School of Medicine and the University at Buffalo have discovered a sleep-promoting circuit located deep in the primitive brainstem, only the second "sleep node" identified in the mammalian brain whose activity appears to b ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 4:41pm
- Media Multitaskers Have Less Gray Matter
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Does simultaneously using a mobile phone, a laptop and other media devices change the structure of our brains? Sure, so did reading that sentence. We all have different experiences and therefore different brains. ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 8:30am
- Researchers Create First Mouse Model For ALS Dementia
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The first animal model for ALS dementia, a form of ALS that also damages the brain, has been developed. This advance will allow researchers to directly see the brains of living mice, under anesthesia, at the microscopic level and will allow direct monitor ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 6:30pm
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