Neuroscience

Stress 'Unravels' Brain Structure- Study

The helpless behavior that is commonly linked to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is preceded by stress-related losses of synapses—microscopic connections between brain cells—in the brain’s hippocampal region, researchers at Yale School ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2009 - 2:53pm

Neural Circuitry Of First Impressions Identified

Neuroscientists at New York University and Harvard University say they have identified the neural systems involved in forming first impressions of others. The findings may show how we encode social information and then evaluate it in making these initial j ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2009 - 3:40pm

Neural Stem Cells Replace Stroke-Damaged Tissue In Rats

Effective stem cell treatment for strokes has taken a significant step forward as scientists writing in Biomaterials reveal how they have replaced stroke-damaged brain tissue in rats using neural stem cells. The work, carried out at the King's College ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2009 - 12:12am

Stone Throwing At The Zoo- The Chimp Planned It

Researchers say they have found the first unambiguous evidence that an animal other than humans can make spontaneous plans for future events. The report in Current Biology highlights a decade of observations of a male chimpanzee calmly collecting stones an ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2009 - 11:55am

Beta Blocker Propranolol Helps Eliminate 'Fear' Response

Want to be fearless?   Create an army of super soldiers?   A limited test case may be on to something.   A team of Dutch researchers led by Vici-winner Merel Kindt at Universiteit van Amsterdam has successfully reduced the 'fear response'- they w ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2009 - 5:21pm

Guitarists Don't Just Play Together, Their Brain Waves Sync Too

Synchronized, goal-directed actions are nothing new; that concept is the foundation of civilization.   But it goes much deeper than previously realized, according to research in BMC Neuroscience.    It isn't just voluntary cooperation that happens, so ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2009 - 9:04pm

Intelligence Is Largely Inherited, Says Study

They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are?  Yes, say UCLA researchers.  In a Journal of Neuroscience study, UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show tha ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2009 - 1:08pm

Brain Abnormality Found In Boys With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where they expected to find it. Boys wi ...

Article - News Releases - Dec 22 2012 - 11:26am

Even For Non-Artists, Brain 'Connects The Dots' When Drawing Faces

In a study published in the March issue of Cortex, researchers used a brain scanner to record the activity in each stage while people were in the process of drawing faces. The researchers found that the captured visual information is stored as a series of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2009 - 9:34am

Our Brains Exist 'On The Edge Of Chaos'

A new study says that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order.   Theoretical speculation?  Well, yeah, but that's the nature of neuroscience. The researchers say self-organize ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2009 - 12:21am