Neuroscience

Okay With Disgusting Images? You Vote This Way 95 Percent Of The Time

Maggot infestations, rotting carcasses, unidentifiable gunk in the kitchen sink – how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether you are liberal or conservative. If you don't want to read any further because this is based on ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2014 - 4:46pm

Here's A Brainwave – Magnetic Pulses Could Treat Autism

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation can help alleviate symptoms of autism, such as anxiety. AGUILA_JONATHAN /Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Peter Enticott, Deakin University ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2015 - 11:55am

No Brain Differences Between Autistic And Typical Individuals Over Age 6

In what they are terming the largest MRI study to date, a group of researchers writing in Cerebral Cortex  have found that the brain anatomy in MRI scans of people with autism above age six is mostly indistinguishable from that of typically developing ind ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2014 - 10:45am

Do Women Have Better Noses Than Men?

When it comes to our senses, there is a lot of diversity in people. One person might have 10X the taste buds on their tongue as another person, for example, so they are more sensitive to bitters and sweets. But is there a quantifiable gender difference in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 4:44pm

How To Help Take Control Of Your Brain And Make Better Decisions

Our brains make judgments about images before we're even aware of making a decision. A Health Blog /Flickr, CC BY-NC By Daniel Bennett, University of Melbourne What makes us decide? At one level, this seems like an easy question: we think our options ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 6 2014 - 3:56pm

Scientific Research Bubble – Neuroscience Risks Being The Next One

vivaviena, CC BY-NC-SA By Vincent F Hendricks, University of Copenhagen Science, like any other field that attracts investment, is prone to bubbles. Overly optimistic investments in scientific fields, research methods and technologies generate episodes co ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 7 2014 - 9:00am

Brain Threat Response Reduced If You Know You Are Cared For

An experiment with 42 people under functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) found that if people see pictures of others being loved and cared for, it subsequently reduces the brain's threat monitor, the amygdala,  response to threats.  This occur ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 1:40pm

Why Does Lou Gehrig's Disease Cause Problems For Action Verbs But Not Nouns?

Patients with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, have difficulty with action verbs: Why action verbs and not regular verbs or nouns?  According to some papers, the fact that ALS patients experience it isn' ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2014 - 8:00am

Brain Decline: Marijuana's Long-Term Effects

Though marijuana use has gone up sharply since 2007, claims about its lack of harm compared to cigarettes or drugs are not based on evidence. Instead, studies have shown abnormalities in brain function and structure of long-term marijuana users and that c ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2014 - 8:30am

Alzheimer's Costs Are About To Boom

As baby boomers, originally the children born in 1946, after soldiers returned home from World War II in 1945 but later extended out to be an entire generation, move into old age, the financial burden of Alzheimer's disease in the United States will ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2014 - 10:50am