Neuroscience

Alzheimer’s – Infectious Or Infection?

Back in the good old days, most deaths were due to infectious diseases. Today, thanks to modern technology,life expectancy has increased and the pattern of deaths has changed.  According to the CDC, today’s top ten leading causes of death only include two ...

Article - David Clark - Aug 5 2016 - 5:09am

Acupuncture May Improve Impaired Memory- If Medicine Is Also Involved And You Don't Mind Bleeding And Fainting

A new review of acupuncture evidence published in Acupuncture in Medicine claims acupuncture may help to improve mild cognitive impairment, the memory loss that may precede the development of dementia- at least if medicine is also used. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2016 - 10:49am

Simulations Point To A Promising Compound That Could Reduce Parkinson’s Symptoms

A novel computational approach to design has created a new compound that in laboratory studies has reduced deficits and neurodegenerative symptoms that underlie Parkinson’s disease. In their study, the researchers describe how their compound, dubbed NPT100 ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2016 - 12:49pm

Hearing Voices Again? It's More Common Than You Think

Hearing voices that other people can’t is a meaningful experience. Like dreams, they can usually be understood in terms of one’s life experiences. Within mental health services, however, the prevailing medical model means some practitioners pay attention ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 23 2016 - 11:00am

Music Lessons Create New Brain Connections In Children- May Have Implications For ADD And Autism

Taking music lessons increases brain fiber connections in children, according to a recent small study. The researchers studied 23 healthy children between the ages of five and six years old. All of the children were right handed and had no history of sens ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2016 - 10:30am

Space Is Not Empty, So What Does It Sound Like? You Can Help Science Find Out

We know that there is sound on planets and moons in the solar system – places where there’s a medium through which sound waves can be transmitted, such as an atmosphere or an ocean. But what about empty space? You may have been told definitively that spac ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 24 2016 - 8:00am

Trump’s Cuban Insight Trumps Fidel Kaepernick’s Caper Part 1

In America we have the right to protest, so when Kaepernick started his protest by refusing to honor the flag and the national anthem during NFL pre-game ceremonies a lot of people thought it was wrong, and a lot of people thought it was right. That’s Ame ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:38pm

Trump’s Cuban Insight Trumps Fidel Kaepernick’s Caper Part 2

In the first installment of this two-part post, I mentioned that from my perspective I had understood Kaepernick had a right to protest as an American, but all of that sentiment had changed through a series of interlocking events. Here is what I mean by t ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:38pm

Early Pot Smoking Linked To Poor Cognitive Performance, Delinquency

A new analysis finds that youths who hold off on trying marijuana until age 17 do better on cognitive tests and drop out of school at a lower rate than those who start by age 14. Obviously negative health behavior in alcohol and cigarettes are linked in t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2017 - 6:25am

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