Neuroscience

Dreamachines, Hallucinations, Charles Bonnet Syndrome & The 50 Year Old Question Hodological Science Answered

BEATNIKS   &   DREAMACHINES Almost fifty years ago, the beat poet Brion Gysin (1916- 1986), described a visual hallucination that he experienced while riding a bus: ...

Article - Jen Palmares Meadows - Nov 19 2008 - 3:38pm

Insomnia Linked To Neurochemical Abnormality In GABA

A study in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Sleep is the first demonstration of a specific neurochemical abnormality in adults with primary insomnia, providing greater insight to the limited understanding of the condition's pathology.  Results indicate ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2008 - 11:39am

Brain Study Shows Fibromyalgia May Be All In The Head

Fibromyalgia is frequently considered an 'invisible syndrome' since musculoskeletal imaging is negative.  Some researchers have thought that the pain reported by fibromyalgia patients was the result of depression rather than symptoms of a disorde ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2008 - 11:19am

Error-Related Negativity- The Brain's "Uh Oh" Signal When A Verbal Error Is Made

It seems that our brain can correct speech errors in the same way that it controls other forms of behavior, say Niels Schiller and Lesya Ganushchak, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) researchers in Leiden who made this discovery while ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 10:19am

Music Practice Boosts IQ And Visual Skills Also- Study

A Harvard-based study led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner and published in PLoS ONE  has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training on tests measuring verbal abil ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 3:12pm

Is Stuttering Genetic?

Three million Americans suffer from stuttering.  It afflicts  5% of all children and most eventually overcome it but childhood suffering from stuttering can be traumatic, producing educational, social, and occupational disadvantages.   Bruce Willis, Marily ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2008 - 11:11am

Malleable Brains- Social Acts Alter Gene Expression, Says Study

Our DNA determines a lot about who we are and how we play with others, but recent studies of social animals (birds and bees, among others) show that the interaction between genes and behavior is more of a two-way street than many of us realize.  It's ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2008 - 6:03pm

Sleep Creep: Feeling Sleepy? Then Parts Of Your Brain Already Are

By the time you feel sleepy, parts of your brain are actually already asleep, according to a new theoretical paper by sleep scientists at Washington State University.   Contrary to conventional wisdom, they  say there’s no 'control center' in you ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2008 - 10:54am

Three Chromosome Segments Implicated In Higher Risk Of Brain Aneurysms

Researchers have taken the first critical steps in unraveling the mysteries of brain aneurysms, the often fatal rupturing of blood vessels that afflicts 500,000 people worldwide each year. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2008 - 5:45pm

Unusual Use Of Toys In Infants A Clue To Autism

Researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute have found that infants later diagnosed with autism exhibited unusual exploration of objects long before being diagnosed. Studying a group of children at high risk for developing autism, the researchers found ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2010 - 4:46pm