Neuroscience

How Animals Use Numerical Competence To Make Decisions

People discriminate between quantities because it is a way to make decisions- armies are less likely to want to attack when the defense outnumbers them- but with animals it is more clear,  lions, chimpanzees and hyenas will not attack at all if they don&# ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2014 - 11:54am

Brain like a Jelly?

A news release from Heidelberg, In Search of the Origin of Our Brain, treats us to these two pictures: ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 29 2014 - 11:49am

Jerkiness While Steering A Car Is Built Into Us

Researchers have solved a puzzle in traffic research, namely why so many people 'jerk' the wheel when they steer a car.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2015 - 4:26pm

Can Brain Imaging Predict Your Behavior?

Noninvasive brain scans, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, have led to basic science discoveries about the human brain and have also been wildly misused, claiming to correlate everything from the biology of voting to ideas like that people wi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 5:12pm

Circumcision Linked To Autism- Study

A paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine links circumcision in boys to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The results were drawn from part a cohort of all children born in Denmark between 1994 and 2003. During the study, over 340,000 boys were ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2015 - 11:27am

Cell Transplants Fix Biological Clock

Within the nervous system there is a structure called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, a site considered as the biological clock in all mammals, including humans. A new study has found that when this nucleus is damaged or destroyed the rhythm of the biological ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 11:40am

Burst Generators: How The Spinal Cord Does What The Brain Thinks

As has been demonstrated, even after complete spinal paralysis the human spinal cord is able to trigger activity in the leg muscles using electrical pulses from an implanted stimulator. Now a team of researchers has succeeded in identifying the mechanisms ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 2:00pm

Dopamine Discovery Brings Cocaine Addiction Antidote A Bit Closer

According to the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, cocaine is the second most commonly used illegal addictive in Europe, after cannabis.  A discovery related to the mechanism behind a dopamine transporter could help in the developmen ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2015 - 9:00am

'Idiosyncratic' Brain Patterns In Autism

Autism Spectrum Disorder, a broad range of behavioral and cognitive issues that usually impair learning ability, has been studied for many years but there remain far more questions than answers. Some research into the brain functions of individuals with au ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2015 - 1:18pm

When It Comes To Emotion, Men And Women Process Emotions Differently

Men and women are different in lots of ways and some contend that women are more emotional and that makes a difference in others areas. A recent large-scale study focused on determining the gender-dependent relationship between emotions, memory performance ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2015 - 7:00pm