Neuroscience

Receptive Joint Attention: Vasopressin Receptor Gene A Heritable Clue Into Autism?

A new study found that the ability to follow another's gaze or look in the direction someone is pointing, two examples of receptive joint attention, is significantly heritable. Determining such communicative cues are significantly heritable means var ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 10:41am

Whose Brains Trigger Easier For Violent Behavior, Males Or Females?

We're all capable of committing violence. The person who truly cannot commit violence is quite rare, and likely learned it. Some aspects of behavior depend on interactions in the brain between genetic and environmental factors. And so, it is said, an ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 2:32pm

For Better Sensory Information Processing, You Need To Be Asymmetrical

Symmetry isn't always good. When we look at human faces, the most symmetrical, where one half is mirrored to the other, are less attractive than faces that show some distinction. And it isn't just culture. A study in brains found that too much s ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 5:27pm

Birth Hormone May Control Expression Of Autism In Animals

The autism community agrees that autism has its origins in early life—fotal and/or postnatal. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2014 - 3:05pm

Sensing Science? Subconscious Processing Can Aid Big Data Analysis, Say Psychologists

Can data be a tactile experience? The CEEDs project thinks it can be, and they want to use integrated technologies to support human experience when trying to make sense of very large datasets. Jonathan Freeman Professor of Psychology at Goldsmith Universit ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2014 - 4:41pm

Is There Right-Handed Bias In Neuroscience Studies?

Everyone feels neuroscience studies are biased, no matter how representative they try to be. But Roel Willems and colleagues from the  Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen,  and Max Planck Institute in Nijmege ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2014 - 6:01am

Stroke Victim Brain Imaging Finds Anterior Insula Is The 'Sweet Spot' For Love

The anterior insula region deep inside the brain controls how quickly people make decisions about love, according to a new paper. The finding, made in an examination of a 48-year-old man who suffered a stroke, is the first causal clinical evidence that th ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2014 - 12:37pm

Why Do Some People Remember Their Dreams?

Some people don't remember dreams at all while some remember them frequently. What separates them? Images in brain scans, at least, though that may lead to a more meaningful answer also.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:11am

To Jazz Musician Brains, Music And Language Are A Lot Alike- But When They Play, Something Different Happens...

Jazz musicians do a lot of spontaneous, improvisational music and brains scans show robust activation of brain areas traditionally associated with spoken language and syntax, which are used to interpret the structure of phrases and sentences. But this mus ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2014 - 9:22pm

Carbohydrates Increase Risk Of Dementia- Because You'll Believe Anything

David Perlmutter, MD, became well-known last year as the best-selling author of Grain Brain, which demonizes wheat (and, of course, gluten) and he recently claimed that simple dietary changes would prevent half of Alzheimer's cases.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2014 - 2:02pm