Neuroscience

Study Casts Doubt On Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency MS Hypothesis

There is no evidence that impaired blood flow or blockage in the veins of the neck or head is involved in multiple sclerosis, according to a new paper in an open access journal. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2013 - 7:00am

Oxytocin, Facial Expressions And Autism: Making The Brain Take Notice

Difficulty in registering and responding to facial expressions is a characteristic of autism and somr functional imaging studies claim that individuals with autism, and its very wide modern spectrum of disorders, display altered brain activations when pro ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2013 - 10:48am

Musical Hallucinations Of Lost Memories- A Case Study

A new case study outlines the instance of a 60-year-old woman who suddenly began hearing music, as if a radio were playing at the back of her head. She couldn't identify the music but when she hummed or sang the tunes, her husband was able to recogni ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2013 - 12:59pm

Autistic Kids Can Outgrow Difficulty With Visual Cues And Sounds

High-functioning autistic children appear able to outgrow a critical social communication disability. Younger children with autism have trouble integrating the auditory and visual cues associated with speech, but the researchers found that the problem cle ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2013 - 1:29pm

Shutting Off Neurons Helps Bullied Mice Overcome Depression

A group of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurons, the neurotransmitters which inhibit other cells, shown to contribute to symptoms like social withdrawal and increased anxiety, may lead to  a new drug target for depression and other mood disorders.   It ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2013 - 4:30am

Organoids Get Cerebral

Organoids, those laboratory-created tissue structures designed to mimic human organ functions, are now getting into your head. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 29 2013 - 5:25pm

Weekend Science: Learn To Echolocate Like A Bat

Okay Daredevil, this will take some time and some work, but so does playing a guitar- a group of biologists have determined that humans can learn to echolocate the way bats do. It's well known that blind people develop keener hearing and they even lea ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2013 - 6:00am

Could A Treatment For Parkinson’s Reverse The Effects Of Early Life Trauma?

A stressful pregnancy might be the last thing a future mother needs, but it is to her unborn baby that this stress spells real trouble. All because stress hormones (called glucocorticoids or GCs) can disrupt foetal brain development, leading to serious be ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 28 2013 - 4:47am

Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Is Alzheimer's Missing Link, Says Study

Researchers have discovered a protein that is the missing link in the complicated chain of events that lead to Alzheimer's disease. They also found that blocking the protein with an existing drug can restore memory in mice with brain damage that mimi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 2:37pm

Selectively Erasing Unwanted Memories

The human brain is adept at linking seemingly random details into a cohesive memory that can trigger myriad associations — some good and some not so good. For recovering addicts or individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), unwanted memories c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2013 - 5:33pm