Neuroscience

OCD, Compulsive Eaters And Addicts Share Common Pattern And Brain Structure

People who engage in binge eating, substance abuse and obsessive compulsive disorder all share a common pattern of decision making and similarities in brain structure, according to a  new paper in  Molecular Psychiatry. ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 11:00am

'Free Will' Can Be Altered Through Brain Stimulation

How much free will do you really have? Hypnosis is silly and there is no "Manchurian Candidate" scenario happening any time soon, but we're all inductance when you get right down to it. And that could be a future path in neuroscience. A stu ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 1:27pm

Not Just Neurons: Leptin Also Influences Other Cells That Control Appetite

Twenty years after the hormone leptin was found to regulate metabolism, appetite, and weight through brain cells called neurons, a new study in Nature Neuroscience says that the hormone also acts on other types of cells to control appetite. Leptin, a natu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2014 - 10:00pm

Total Recall: From Science Fiction To Science Fact

A group of researchers have erased memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals' reaction to past events. Then they put them back. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimula ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 12:36am

Marijuana Use Linked To Impaired Sleep Quality

New research in the journal Sleep and being presented Wednesday, June 4th in Minneapolis at SLEEP 2014 suggests that marijuana use is associated with impaired sleep quality. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 10:01am

Why Autism Is More Common In Males? Children With Autism Had Elevated Levels Of Steroids In The Womb

A new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry has linked children who later developed autism with exposure to elevated levels of steroid hormones (for example testosterone, progesterone and cortisol) in the womb. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 10:03am

Forgetting Is Important Too

The recent study from UC-San Diego on memories in rats, published in the June 1 Nature, confirms the long-standing suspicion that memories are formed based on the strength of the synapses, and deteriorate as the connections of those synapses weaken. More i ...

Blog Post - Shannon Rapp - Jun 13 2014 - 1:07pm

Is Sign Language Inborn? Kid Gestures Organize Into Language-Like Sequences

Young children instinctively use a ‘language-like’ structure to communicate through gestures, a result which suggests that children are not just learning language from older generations, but instead their preference for communication has shaped how languag ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 2:02am

Why Crows Are Intelligent- Working Memory Neurons

An important prerequisite for intelligence is a good short-term memory which can store and process the information needed for ongoing processes. This 'working memory' is a kind of mental notepad – without it, we could not follow a conversation, d ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 9:01am

Small Molecule May Help Battle Depression- And Antidepressants Change It

Antidepressant drugs are common in the developed world and are among the most prescribed medications in North America. Though antidepressants are effective for some, there is a lot of variability in how individuals respond to antidepressant treatment.   A ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 4:20pm