Neuroscience

Brains, Behavior And Babies- Why Some Soothe Easier Than Others

If you have a 'difficult' baby, don't worry too much about your parenting skills.   A new report in Psychological Science says that a child's temperament may be due in part to a combination of a certain gene and a specific pattern of br ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2009 - 11:29am

Oh No You Didn't- Teen Girls Emotion Circuits Spark More Than Boys

As teenagers' drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations, things change in their brains- literally.    Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older- but not in ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2009 - 8:40am

Prenatal Brain- Fetus Has Short Term Memory At 30 Weeks, Says Study

It is known that memory begins during the prenatal period but little has been discovered about the exact timing or for how long memory lasts. A new study done in Holland has found fetal short-term memory in babies at 30 weeks in the womb. The study provide ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2009 - 8:56am

Brain Stimulation Device For Treatment Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Approved In Europe

Medtronic today announced that its Reclaim(R) Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Therapy has received CE (Conformite Europeene) Mark approval for the treatment of chronic, severe treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This is the first time tha ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2009 - 2:26pm

Why Are Some People Smarter Than Others?

Some people are smarter than others.   Even in a multicultural world where no one is better and everyone is equally ordinary, we secretly still know that some people are smarter (politically correct disclaimer-  others are just differently intelligent) tha ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2009 - 11:28am

Peer Pressure Different For Boys And Girls

A new study conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Georgia State University looked at psychiatrically healthy Americans ages 9 to 17 to determine what happens in the brains of preteens and teens at a time of signific ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2009 - 11:24am

Neurodegenerative Disease SCA2 Gets An Abnormal Calcium Signaling Hypothesis

University of Utah School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center have found strong evidence that abnormal calcium signaling in neurons may play an important role in the development of spinocereb ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2009 - 7:23pm

Can FMRI Read People's Minds?

Some researchers, and certainly some new businesses, are counting on the fact that the brain imaging technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can reveal thoughts and determine if someone is lying or telling the truth- and maybe even ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2009 - 1:55pm

Scientists Say They Can Now Measure Happiness- Without You Knowing It

Pancakes make you happy.  Science knows that now.     For decades, social scientists have  been searching for a way to measure happiness without any success. Surveys provide some useful information but people misreport and misremember their feelings when c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2009 - 2:20pm

Impact Of DNA Damage In Developing Brain Tracked

Switching off a key DNA repair system, Xrcc1, in the developing nervous system was linked to smaller brain size as well as problems in brain structures vital to movement, memory and emotion in new research. The study in Nature Neuroscience also provided th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2009 - 4:08pm