Neuroscience

Einstein's Brain Was Unique- Just Like Yours

The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein's brain were unusually well connected to each other, according to a paper, which then determines that may have contributed to his brilliance. The study says it is the first to detail Einstein's c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2013 - 8:04pm

Cargo Cult Science Debunked: Brain Training Games Won't Help Intelligence

You've seen advertisements for brain training games, apps, and websites that promise to give your mental abilities a boost- even "Baby Einstein" videos for infants make the claim that they will lead to higher intelligence. A new paper finds ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2013 - 1:03pm

English Lit Scholars: Poetry Acts Like Music In Their Brains

A group at the University of Exeter used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology on the brains of 13 volunteers, all faculty members and graduate students in English at the school, to see how they respond to poetry and prose- and then decl ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2013 - 12:13pm

Chemosignals: Stress Sweat Impacts How Women Are Perceived

A new study says it has confirmed for the first time that the smell of stress sweat does  significantly alter how women are perceived by both males and females. Research has shown the ability of human body odor to communicate information between individua ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2013 - 9:09am

I'm Okay And You're Not- The Science

If you talk to social scientists, egoism and narcissism appear are on the rise while empathy is on the decline. In recent years, the ability to put ourselves in other people's shoes has been deemed extremely important for our coexistence- nuclear bom ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2013 - 10:29am

How Brain Development In Kids Who Stutter Is Different

Children who stutter have less grey matter in key regions of the brain responsible for speech production than children who do not stutter, according to brain scans of 28 children ranging from five to 12 years old. Half the children were diagnosed with stu ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2013 - 12:48pm

Brain Releases Opiod Painkillers During Social Rejection Too

The brain may have its own way of easing social pain, according to a recent paper, and it involves the brain's natural painkiller system.  Combining brain scans with questionnaire results, they determined that people who score high on a personality t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2013 - 8:30am

The Brain Mechanisms Behind A Bizzare Symptom Of Narcolepsy

Normally muscles contract in order to support the body, but in a rare condition known as cataplexy the body's muscles "fall asleep" and become involuntarily paralyzed. Cataplexy is incapacitating because it leaves the affected individual aw ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2013 - 6:30am

Occupational Hazard? Teachers More Likely To Develop Speech And Language Disorders

Researchers have found an odd statistic; people with speech and language disorders are about 3.5 times more likely to be teachers than patients with Alzheimer's dementia.  Speech and language disorders are typically characterized by people losing the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2013 - 10:12am

Schizophrenia Linked To Abnormal Brain Waves

Schizophrenia patients often suffer from a breakdown of organized thought, accompanied by delusions or hallucinations- neuroscientists have observed the neural activity that appears to produce this disordered thinking and found that mice lacking the brain ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2013 - 5:10pm