Neuroscience

The Aliens Among Us Are Friends

We all avoid different things. I avoid polyester clothing. They avoid talking about death.   (Lisa Daxer) Projects on SETI projects look for extraterrestrial signals from space.  Work with dolphins, elephants, even chickens seeks to see if these animals a ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 27 2010 - 3:00am

Burning & Cutting: The Calming Effects Of Self-Harm?

It's counter-intuitive that hurting oneself could make a person feel better but, based on the assumption that no one truly wants to hurt themselves without a benefit, researchers have taken reports from people who compulsively harm themselves and soug ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2011 - 10:20am

Virtual Characters Behave Based On Human Unconscious Behavior

A new system  published in The Visual Computer uses sensors and wireless devices to measure three physiological parameters in real time, heart rate, respiration, and the galvanic (electric) skin response, processes that data using software, and is then use ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2010 - 11:23am

Non-Pharmacological Therapies For Alzheimer's Disease Need Be Made Widely Available- Study

22 scientists have published a study they say provides clear evidence about the effectiveness of Non-pharmacological Therapies in Alzheimer's disease and are calling on governments to make these useful treatments readily available.  A cure for Alzhei ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2010 - 12:47pm

Speed Of Thought A Little Faster Than...Thought, And What It Means For Computing

When nerve cells communicate with each other, they do so through electrical pulses.  Most everything in our bodies comes down to induction when you think about it.    Since the early days of neuroscience, the accepted idea was that nerve cells simply sum u ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2010 - 7:17pm

Biofeedback Your Brain Regions

People can learn to control the activity of some brain regions when they get feedback signals provided by functional magnetic resonance brain imaging (fMRI), according to researchers who used fMRI during training sessions with three groups of healthy parti ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2010 - 12:37am

Action Video Games Train Brains For Faster Decisions With No Loss In Accuracy

Can playing "Call of Duty 2" improve your brain power?   University of Rochester researchers say that, and other action video games, train people to make the right decisions faster.   Video games help players develop a heightened sensitivity to w ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2010 - 12:59pm

Your Brain Scan Reveals Your Maturity Level

Think boys mature faster than girls?  Or vice versa?   Let's go to the MRI! Researchers at Oregon Health&Science University and Washington University in St. Louis say they can now accurately predict a young person's age simply by taking an MR ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2010 - 9:29am

In The Brain, Sleep Is A Local Phenomenon- A New Discovery Explains How

Since man has been able to think about big issues, such as why we are the way we are, it has been known that what happens during the daytime, including emotional stress and physical activity, can affect sleep. When an animal is active and awake, research s ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2010 - 8:19am

Anti-Depressants And Morality: The Serotonin Effect On Harm Aversion

We know people have positive social behavior in part because of emotional reactions to real or imagined social harm  - we may not like seeing others slighted or we may not want to be perceived as the kind of person who does that sort of thing. But some are ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2010 - 4:28pm