Neuroscience

Getting High? Addicts May Instead Be Seeking Relief From Lows

Cocaine addicts may become trapped in drug binges not because they are always seeking euphoric highs but rather to avoid emotional lows, says a study in Psychopharmacology. Rutgers neuroscientists Professor Mark West and doctoral student David Barker disp ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2013 - 7:30am

What Sex And Bullies Have In Common

What do bullies and sex have in common?   The same part of the brain reacts to both.  In a recent study, researchers found that different types of fear are processed by different groups of neurons in mice, even if the animals act out those fears in the sa ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2013 - 5:30am

Extensive Musical Training Affects Brain Structure And Function

All musical training has some benefits for brains, but new research shows how brain regions communicate during the creation of music and find that extensive musical training affects the structure and function of different brain regions and even how the br ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2013 - 4:07pm

Ritalin Reduces Impulsivity In Small Study

Beginning two decades ago, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses jumped to 11 percent of American children aged 4 to 17 even though neuroscientists still did not know biologically what ADHD is.  ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2013 - 1:19pm

Gender Of Speaker May Affect Language Processing

Do we process language we hear without regard to anything about the speaker? Perhaps or perhaps not. A small psychological experiment using University of Kansas undergraduates who were paid to participate and spoke Spanish found that the sex of a speaker ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2013 - 3:24pm

Go To Bed: Brain Connections In Young Children Strengthen During Sleep

The connections between the left and the right hemispheres of the brain strengthen in young children while they sleeo, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new paper. Scientists have known that the brain changes drastically during early c ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2013 - 4:40pm

Male And Female Brains Have Different Gene Expression- May Explain Autism Differences

There are widespread differences in how genes are expressed in men and women's brains, based on post-mortem adult human brain and spinal cord samples from over 100 individuals analyzed by byscientists at the University College London Institute of Neu ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2013 - 9:13am

Sorry NPR Listeners, This Meat, Egg And Dairy Nutrient Is Essential For Brain Development

Asparagine, which is found in foods such as meat, eggs, and dairy products, was once considered non-essential because it is also produced naturally by the body. And that is true, for every organ except the brain, where the amino acid is essential for norm ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 7:00am

SCN Neurons: Controlling Our Circadian Rhythms

In the modern world of long-distance travel, many people have experienced circadian-rhythm disruption, especially after traveling across time zones. The physiology that affects modulating our biological "clocks" to combat jet lag or cope with al ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2013 - 12:21pm

Low Vitamin D May Cause Damage To Brain

A new paper in Free Radical Biology and Medicine suggests that a diet low in vitamin D causes damage to the brain. In addition to being essential for maintaining bone health, the new evidence found that vitamin D serves important roles in other organs and ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2013 - 5:30am