Neuroscience

Hearing And Emotions- People With Tinnitus Process Emotions Differently

People with persistent ringing in the ears – a condition known as tinnitus – process emotions differently than those with normal hearing, according to a new paper. Tinnitus afflicts 50 million people in the United States, according to the American Tinnitu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 6:36pm

Complex Cognac Is Simple: Typical Aromas Encoded By Just A Few Key Odors

Complementing the five basic tastes of sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami, a large variety of odors also contribute to the overall sensory impression of a foodstuff. Taste is big business, and that means science is on the case.  In recent decades, appro ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 12:56pm

Cholinergic Amacrine: Heritable Nerve Cell Creates A 'Personal' Space

Neurons are vital to the functional organization of the central nervous system. Multiple cell types are present within any brain structure, but the rules governing their positioning, and the molecular mechanisms mediating those rules, are unknown. A new s ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2014 - 12:00am

Night Owls Shouldn't Drive In The Morning

It's no secret that people who are tired don't perform well but a new study tackles the impact of being a morning person or a night owl on driving performance. By measuring people when they are out of sync with their "chronotype" wheth ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 9:22am

Early Life Stress Can Be Good For Developing Brains- Or Toxic

You can't coddle kids or their brains too much. Without a little bit of frustration and stress, they would never learn how to talk or read or do science. Without some physical stress, we would all be crawling from place to place. Stress helps us lear ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 2:50pm

Optogenetics And Jaws: Brain Control Now Without Being Inside Your Skull

Optogenetics is a technology that allows scientists to control brain activity by shining light on light-sensitive proteins that can suppress or stimulate electrical signals within cells.  In the last 15 years,  optogenetics has become a common laboratory ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 4:02pm

Revealed: What Happens In Female Brains During Courtship And Mating

Why do females sometimes ignore males and sometimes stop and pay attention? There are many conjectures: looking like Ryan Gosling seems to help but there are a lot of other variables: if the female is under the age of 30, a male being unemployed while he ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 10:17pm

Motörhead Scientifically Documented As One Of The Most Hardcore Rock Bands On Earth

Motörhead concert goers may have to sign a waiver before they buy tickets. If that band were in California, they would have to wear a Proposition 65 warning on their shirts. Why? Because they can give you brain damage, according to a Case Report published ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2019 - 3:12pm

A Dominant Brain Hemisphere For Handedness- And Language

Using a large psychometric and brain imaging database, researchers in the Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle (CNRS/CEA/Université de Bordeaux) say they have determined that the location of language areas in the brain is independent of left- or right ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 9:28am

Sleep Deprived? That's What Psychosis Is Like

24 hours of sleep deprivation can lead healthy people to a condition similar to the symptoms of schizophrenia, which could serve as a model system for the development of drugs to treat psychosis. In psychosis, there is a loss of contact with reality and t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2014 - 2:58pm