Neuroscience

Alzheimer's Disease Linked To Glucose Deprivation In Mice

Though scant progress has been made in treating or understanding Alzheimer's disease in the last 100 years, one thing is known; there are declines in glucose levels in the hippocampus early on. What has remained unclear is whether that is a cause or c ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2017 - 12:52pm

The Brain Fear Network And Genetic Risk Factors For Anxiety Disorders

Some people have an extreme fear of spiders or other objects while others have breathing difficulties and accelerated heart beat in small rooms or large gatherings of people. Some anxiety attacks occur for no apparent cause. Some patients suffer from the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2017 - 9:50pm

Brain Images Of Sharing Predicts Which Articles Go Viral

A new fMRI study used neural activity in 80 people to accurately predict the virality of 80 New York Times health articles. Well, it's the New York Times, a top five newspaper in the U.S. so the results are going to be skewed by that, as were the arti ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2017 - 5:44pm

The Redundancy Of Freud's Divide Between Psychiatry And Neurology

Neurological and psychiatric conditions both involve the brain, but are treated very differently. Put simply, neurologists are trained to deal with the “brain” and psychiatrists to deal with the “mind”. Neurologists and psychiatrists formally parted compa ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 25 2017 - 5:45am

High False Positives In Neuroimages May Be Overstated

The effects of a "bug" in the analysis of functional neuroimages (AFNI) software was greatly exaggerated, a finding that is in defiance of numerous other studies which have found that false positive rates in the analysis of functional magnetic re ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2017 - 9:26am

How Dopamine And Opioid Systems Modulate Responses To The Pain Of Others

Capacity for vicarious experiences is a fundamental aspect of human social behavior. For example, seeing others experiencing pain can activate brain circuits that are known to support actual first-hand experience of pain.  A new study has revealed how the ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2017 - 8:28am

The Lifelong Teenage Brain: Do Many Adults have the brain of a 13-year-old?

Many have advanced the idea that adolescent anatomical brain development justifies denying adolescents the civil liberties and decisional autonomy that are granted to almost all adults automatically [1][2]. In an earlier writing, I made a case for the oppo ...

Blog Post - Nightvid Cole - Aug 5 2017 - 12:13pm

Brain Performance Not Affected By Menstrual Cycle

Men who worry that women may not make the right decisions during a menstrual cycle, and women who claim biology is a valid excuse for being a jerk, you're both out of luck. An examination of three aspects of cognition across two menstrual cycles found ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2017 - 7:37am

Childhood Obesity May Be A Psychological Disorder

Researchers looked at frequency magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) images to compare neural responses to food cues in overweight and normal weight adolescents. They noted that food stimuli activated regions of the brain associated with reward and emotion i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2017 - 12:17pm

Brain-Computer Interface Turns Thoughts Into A Musical Score

Brain-computer interfaces can replace bodily functions to a certain degree and now they can even compose music. At least in a sense. Derived from an established brain-computer interface method which mainly serves to spell- more accurately- write, a team w ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2017 - 3:11pm