Neuroscience

Get Chills When You Hear Music You Like? Thank Your Orbitofrontal Cortex

If you're a music lover, you've likely had that feeling where a favorite song floods your system with pleasurable emotions, joyful memories, makes your hair stand on edge, or even sends a shiver or "chill" down your spine. About half of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2020 - 1:28pm

Melatonin May Boost Memory But Here's Why You Shouldn't Go Buy Supplements

Every pharmacy has a section devoted to products that are not scientifically known to do anything at all, they could never pass FDA scrutiny on their claims, but they don't need to and pharmacies are in business to make money. And in places like Washi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2020 - 1:44am

Vitamin D Linked To Autism Spectrum Disorder

A deficiency in Vitamin D on the mother's side could explain why Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnoses are three times more common in boys, but don't start buying supplements. This was in rats and rats are not little people, there is a lot of ground ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2020 - 10:55am

Your Dog Does Understand You- They Use Your Emotions To Predict Your Actions Much Like People Do

Man's best friend learns to understand human emotions, and that can help them predict our behavior and informs their decision making. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2021 - 4:04pm

Uncanny Valley: Creepiness Gets Some Neuroscience

Why do clowns freak us out?  And why are robots cute until they look too much like people, and then then they creep us out? It's our old friend the Uncanny Valley and it basically postulates that the more realistic something gets to a human likeness, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 22 2021 - 7:21pm

Atomic Force Microscopy May Lead To Detecting Dementia In The Blood

For a pilot study, a team examined blood samples from 50 patients and 16 healthy subjects. Using atomic force microscopy technology, they analyzed the surface of around 1000 red blood cells per person without knowing anything about their state of health.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2021 - 3:49pm

People Are Sick Of People- It's Time To Make Robots More Social

It's nice that a robot can fold a towel really, really slowly, but they're going to remain an academic gimmick until they can engage in social interactions. Then they could replace people. If you have spent any time on Twitter, you know people ar ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2021 - 6:25pm

Epidemiologists Link DDT From The 1970s To Modern Autism Diagnoses

DDT was banned by a politician in the US in 1972 and was banned a few years later in Finland, so how can it be causing autism now? The answer is statistics. The same curve that can show autism is linked to organic food can link autism to anything and if yo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2021 - 4:56pm

Does Learning A Foreign Language Stimulate Cerebral Growth?

The thought that learning language stimulates brain growth may never have crossed your mind, but the truth is that language learning challenges your brain and stimulates it to stay pliable and strong. Regardless of your age, learning a new language can bo ...

Article - Anton Lucanus - Jan 7 2022 - 11:53pm

SARS-CoV-2 Is A Respiratory Virus, But 'Long Covid' Effects In The Brain Are Real

All coronaviruses, and certainly SARS-CoV-2, have become famous as a respiratory virus, but acute COVID-19 infection has been linked to many different organ systems, including the brain, resulting in a wide range of neurological complications with long-las ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2022 - 7:38pm