Neuroscience

The Daredevil Insula: Thrill-Seeking Behavior Based In The Brain?

Sky diving and base jumping are not for everyone. However, for certain people, the more risk and adrenaline involved in an activity, the better! What draws some people to daredevil behavior while others shy away from it? Psychologists Jane E. Joseph, Xun L ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2009 - 12:31pm

The Love Circuit- This Is Your Brain On Romance

The Valentine's Day lovefest on this site- who says scientists aren't warm and fuzzy?- is spectacular. You can learn about the chemistry of love with Valentine's Day science for women, easy solutions for the languishing lothario (personal fa ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 12 2009 - 2:31am

Are You Smarter Than A Pigeon?

Are you smarter than a pigeon?   We don't mean smarter as in able to figure out why it's $14  a day for lousy internet access in a hotel or $14 to see an old movie in your hotel room or the hospitality industry's general preference for the n ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2009 - 10:47am

How Language Evolves In Deaf People

Without formalized sign language instruction, deaf children in families develop their own language using simple gestures that become more complex over time.     Unless they are gather in large groups, those specific deaf languages can result in thousands o ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2009 - 9:52am

Figuring Out Short Term Perceptual And Memory Storage Processing

People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers can see just what information people are holding in memory based only on patterns of activity in the brain. Psych ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2009 - 1:53pm

What's New In Risk Reduction Against Breast Cancer?

Cancer is a family affair. Protection against this disease is also a family affair. A new idea for protection is not equal in impact as any other. What do you do when there is conflict within and between the available recommendations? ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Feb 26 2009 - 8:19pm

Consumer Drug Experiment A Success 95%+ of American Population Addicted to MSG!

You are probably addicted right know, it's O.K. everyone else is also. This experiment has been on the American food consumers without prejudice to religion, status, or race. It is a complete success we have managed to slip an undetected drug like ca ...

Blog Post - Russell Ade - Jul 24 2009 - 6:52pm

ADHD Linked To Abnormal REM Sleep In Children

A study in the March 1 issue of   SLEEP suggests the presence of an intrinsic sleep problem specific to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and supports the idea that children with ADHD may be chronically sleep deprived and have abnormal REM sl ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2009 - 1:40pm

Sorry Baby Einstein Marketing- TV Viewing Before Age 2 Shows No Benefit

If you're about to invest in a lot of DVDs for your new baby, here's a way to save some money; they won't help.  Of course, there is some correlation/causation data to classical music but it's correlation/causation data because parents ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2009 - 10:11am

Musicians Have A Biological Advantage When It Comes To Emotions In Sounds

In a study in the latest issue of European Journal of Neuroscience, an interdisciplinary Northwestern research team says they have found biological evidence that musical training enhances an individual's ability to recognize emotion in sound.  The stu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2009 - 12:54pm