Neuroscience

Why You Can't Catch Any: Fish Are As Smart As Chimpanzees

Coral trout are fast when chasing prey above the reefs of their habitat, but can't pursue their quarry if it buries itself into a hard-to-reach reef crevice- so they instead team up with a snake-like moray eel to flush out the unfortunate fish, which ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 9:00am

Intelligence Inheritance – 3 Genes That Add To Your IQ Score

There's no one universal 'intelligence gene' but many thousands each contributing a small increment – and here are three.Credit: Andrew Huff/Flickr (cropped), CC BY By Beben Benyamin, The University of Queensland and Peter Visscher, The Uni ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2015 - 11:01am

Sex Hormones Implicated In Autism

Males get more diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders than females and it may be related to changes in the brain's estrogen signaling, writes a paper in Molecular Autism.  Autism Spectrum Disorders are a broad category of diagnoses that include brain ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 2:37pm

Can The Parietal Cortex Predict Risky Behavior?

Some people avoid risk while others will roll the dice with wealth, health, and safety. Is it just personality? Media influence? Researchers led by Ifat Levy, assistant professor in comparative medicine and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine believe ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 5:53pm

Can Blood Type Affect Memory?

People with blood type AB may be more likely to develop memory loss in later years than people with other blood types, according to a paper in Neurology, but what does that really mean? AB is the least common blood type, found in about 4 percent of the U. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 5:30pm

B1 Deficit Linked To Brain Damage

Thiamine- vitamin B1- can potentially cause a fatal brain disorder called Wernicke encephalopathy. Wernicke encephalopathy typically occurs in people who have disorders such as alcoholism and anorexia that lead to malnourishment and is an example of the w ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 4:30pm

How Much Sleep Do We Need?

Most adults need seven to nine hours sleep to function at their best. Credit: Jiuck/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Gemma Paech, University of South Australia ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 13 2014 - 8:00am

In Rats, Nicotine Withdrawal Reduces Response To Rewards

Cigarette smoking is considered a leading cause of preventable death worldwide and implicated in as many as 440,000 deaths in the United States each year by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States, about 20 percent of peo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 10:14am

People With Blood Type AB More At Risk Of Cognitive Decline And Dementia

Don't bank on it. Credit: Sabinurce By Kristine Alexander, University of Vermont ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 17 2014 - 5:01pm

Watching Neurons Learn: Learning New Ideas Is More Difficult

By Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science-- Researchers in Pittsburgh, using a brain-computer interface, have shown why learning something similar to what you already know--a repertoire of previous knowledge--makes learning new things easier. Learning unfamiliar ...

Article - Joel Shurkin - May 25 2015 - 11:12am