Neuroscience

Yoga, Meditation Participants Control Computers With Their Minds Better

People who practice yoga and meditation long term can learn to control a computer with their minds faster and better than people with little or no yoga or meditation experience, find biomedical engineers at the University of Minnesota writing in TECHNOLOG ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 11:13am

GABA And Getting Control Over Tourette Syndrome

Tourette syndrome is a developmental disorder characterized by involuntary, repetitive, and stereotyped movements or utterances. New evidence explains how those with Tourette syndrome in childhood often manage to gain control over those tics. In individua ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2014 - 12:00pm

Strategy Or Chance? How The Brain Decides

Many of the choices we make are informed by experiences we've had in the past but we know that sometimes it is better to throw all that out and take a risk on something new. Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Ca ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 1:00pm

Our Neurons See What We Tell Them To See

Neurons programmed to fire at specific faces, such as the famously reported "Jennifer Aniston neuron", may be more in line with the conscious recognition of faces than the actual images seen. In an experiment, subjects presented with a blended f ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2014 - 11:01am

Rewire The Brain's Circuitry To Treat Depression

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex can treat symptoms of depression in humans by placing a relatively small device on a person's scalp and stimulating brain circuits, yet little is known about how TMS p ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 7:30am

Who Your Brain Decides To Make Friends With When You Start University

How many freebies can you carry? Credit: Nottingham Trent University, CC BY-NC-ND By Kira Shaw, University of Sheffield ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 1 2014 - 8:01am

The Role Of Brain Connectivity In Pain Inhibition And Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a symptom-based disorder that manifests itself as chronic pain. Its underlying causes are unknown. The results of a new study compares brain activity in individuals with and without fibromyalgia and indicate that decreased connectivity betw ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 8:30am

Twitching In Your Sleep Is More About Mapping The Brain Than Chasing Rabbits

Coming to get you. Credit: D Simmonds, CC BY-SA By Mark Blumberg, University of Iowa; Alexandre Tiriac, University of Iowa, and Carlos del Rio Bermudez, University of Iowa ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 3 2014 - 6:00pm

How Memories Form- The Hippocampus In 3-D

The way neurons are interconnected in the brain is very complicated. This holds especially true for the cells of the hippocampus. It is one of the oldest brain regions and its form resembles a see horse (hippocampus in Latin). The hippocampus enables us t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 11:31am

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