Neuroscience

3K3A-APC, an experimental drug, appears to reduce brain damage and eliminate brain hemorrhaging in older stroke-afflicted mice and stroke-afflicted rats with co-morbid conditions such as hypertension…

Reading this article while someone else read a piece in People means your brain has already been shaped differently than that of the other person. Each experience sends us off on divergent branches,…

A study in mice has found that the space between brain cells may increase during sleep, allowing the brain to flush out toxins that build up during waking hours.  Get a good night's sleep…

Worrisome news for retired American football players.  Though former players in a new preliminary study were not diagnosed with any neurological condition, brain imaging tests revealed unusual…

Schizophrenia patients often suffer from a breakdown of organized thought, accompanied by delusions or hallucinations - neuroscientists have observed the neural activity that appears to produce this…

Researchers have found an odd statistic; people with speech and language disorders are about 3.5 times more likely to be teachers than patients with Alzheimer's dementia.  Speech and…

The brain may have its own way of easing social pain, according to a recent paper, and it involves the brain's natural painkiller system.  Combining brain scans with questionnaire results, they…

Normally muscles contract in order to support the body, but in a rare condition known as cataplexy the body's muscles "fall asleep" and become involuntarily paralyzed. Cataplexy is incapacitating…

Children who stutter have less grey matter in key regions of the brain responsible for speech production than children who do not stutter, according to brain scans of 28 children ranging from five to…

If you talk to social scientists, egoism and narcissism appear are on the rise while empathy is on the decline. In recent years, the ability to put ourselves in other people's shoes has been deemed…