Neuroscience

5-HTTLPR Gene, Not Psychology, Implicated In Premature Ejaculation

The rapidity of ejaculation in men is genetically determined, according to research by Utrecht University Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Marcel Waldinger and Pharmacological Researcher Paddy Janssen. The participants in the study by Waldinger and Janssen were 89 Du ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2008 - 12:15pm

Memory And Learning: Astrocytes And Synaptic Plasticity

By mopping up excess neurotrophic factor from neuronal synapses, astrocytes may finely tune synaptic transmission to affect processes such as learning and memory, say Bergami et al. The major cellular events of learning and memory are long-term potentiatio ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2008 - 12:01am

More Thought, Fewer Emotions- Autistic People Less Irrational, Says Study

People with autism-related disorders are less likely to make irrational decisions, and are less influenced by gut instincts, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. The study adds to the growing body of research implicating altered emotional pr ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2010 - 4:50pm

Subliminal Scent Creates Memories- Even When Sleeping

In a series of experiments with sleeping mice, researchers at the Duke University Medical Center say they have shown that the part of the brain that processes scents is a key part of forming long-term memories, especially involving other individuals. " ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2008 - 6:15pm

Dopamine Signaling- Why Some Like Chocolate Milkshakes Too Much

Using brain imaging and chocolate milkshakes, scientists have found that women with weakened "reward circuitry" in their brains are at increased risk of weight gain over time and potential obesity. The risk increases even more for women who also ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2008 - 6:30pm

Cigarette Smoke Does Not Trigger Relapse In Smokers, Says Study

Research into tobacco dependence published online today (Friday 17 October 2008) in the November issue of Addiction, has shown that recent ex-smokers who find exposure to other people's cigarette smoke pleasant are not any more likely to relapse than ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2008 - 10:10am

Spatial Learning, Striatum And The 'Dry Cleaning Effect'

Yale researchers have described how dueling brain systems may explain why you forget to drop off the dry cleaning and may point to ways that substance abusers and people with obsessive compulsive disorder can overcome bad habits.   In Proceedings of the Na ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2008 - 4:37pm

Prairie Voles Confirm Guys Have Feelings Too

Are you missing that special someone? To let him or her know you really care, nothing says 'I love you' like a lab report showing your corticotropin-releasing factor levels are elevated. A paper published in Neuropsychopharmacology notes that evi ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 22 2008 - 10:54pm

Gamma Wave 'Glue' Of Memory And Learning In Children

New studies conducted by April Benasich, professor of neuroscience at Rutgers University in Newark, and her colleagues reveal that gamma wave activity in the brains of children provide a window into their cognitive development, and could open the way for m ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2008 - 2:42pm

Synaesthesia, Cognitive 'Cross Talk' And Using Hypnosis To Induce It

People living with synaesthesia (known as synaesthetes) experience abnormal interactions between the senses. Digit-color synaesthetes, for instance, will experience certain numbers in specific colors (for example, they might experience the number seven as ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 12:40pm