Neuroscience

A paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine links circumcision in boys to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The results were drawn from part a cohort of all children born in Denmark…

Noninvasive brain scans, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, have led to basic science discoveries about the human brain and have also been wildly misused, claiming to correlate everything…

Researchers have solved a puzzle in traffic research, namely why so many people 'jerk' the wheel when they steer a car.  The ability to predict what a driver is going to do in the near future…

When people spend time interacting with their smartphones, it is changing the way their thumbs and brains work together, according to a report in Current Biology. More touchscreen use in the recent…

People discriminate between quantities because it is a way to make decisions - armies are less likely to want to attack when the defense outnumbers them - but with animals it is more clear, …

A news release from Heidelberg, In Search of the Origin of Our Brain, treats us to these two pictures: What are these two little critters?  On the left is Nematostella vectensis,…

Lost memories can be restored, which offers some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. The belief has been that memories are stored at the synapses -- the connections between…

It's no secret that some people are better at navigating than others, but it has been unclear why. In order to successfully navigate to a destination, you need to know which direction you are…

Young children with type 1 diabetes have slower brain growth compared to children without diabetes, finds a new study in Diabetes. The authors suggest that continued exposure to hyperglycemia, or…

Migraine headaches have been linked to double the risk of a nervous system condition that causes facial paralysis, called Bell's palsy, according to a new study published in the December 17, 2014,…