Neuroscience

Animal Study Offers New Insights On Autism

Researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science and the Baylor College of Medicine have identified a protein that when removed from mice results in behaviors that are akin to those with autism and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Their f ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2008 - 9:17am

Brain Scan Reveals Why You Buy Jewelry For Your Wife Instead Of Gears Of War 2

You're in the store and you have a choice between buying Gears Of War 2, with its innovative third-person tactical action gameplay and jaw-dropping graphics with effects like ambient occlusion, dynamic shadows and advanced destructible environments, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2008 - 12:46pm

In The Head, Literally- Gene Study Says Obese People May Be Hard-Wired To Overeat

Is obesity all in your head? A new study says that genes that predispose people to obesity act in the brain and that perhaps some people are simply hardwired to overeat. An international research team found six new genes that help explain body mass index a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2008 - 4:00pm

World's Largest Study On What Kids Like Says Girls Sense Of Taste Is Better Than Boys

The findings of the world's largest study on the ability of children and young people to taste and what they like have now been published jointly by Danish Science Communication and food scientists from The Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) at Universit ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 10:35am

Autism And Schizophrenia Share Common Origin Says Researcher

Schizophrenia and autism probably share a common origin, according to Dutch researcher Annemie Ploeger following an extensive literature study. The developmental psychologist says that both mental diseases have similar physical abnormalities which are form ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2010 - 12:00pm

Emotional Memories- How Old And New Brains Store Them Differently

Neuroscientists from Duke University Medical Center have discovered that older people use their brains differently than younger people when it comes to storing memories, particularly those associated with negative emotions.  The study, appearing in Psychol ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 10:53am

The Neuropsychological Connection To Selflessness (And Religion)

All spiritual experiences are based in the brain. That statement is truer than ever before, according to a University of Missouri neuropsychologist. An MU study has data to support a neuropsychological model that proposes spiritual experiences associated w ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2008 - 11:50am

Carbon Nanotubes- 'Smart' Material For The Brain?

Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal “smart” brain material. Their results in Nature Nanotechnology are a promising step forward in the search to find ways to “bypass” faulty brain wiring. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2008 - 1:30pm

Neural Plasticity And The Self-Repairing Brain

Researchers at The University of British Columbia have discovered why the brain loses its capacity to re-grow connections and repair itself, knowledge that could lead to therapeutics that “rejuvenate” the brain.  The study, published today in The EMBO Jour ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2008 - 8:17pm

Big Sugar Won't Like This Princeton Study On Addiction

Almost anything can be considered colloquially 'addictive' if you like it enough- computer games, Reese's Peant Butter Cups, reading Scientific Blogging articles and the best science blogs on the planet. Clinical addiction is another issue, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2008 - 12:33pm