Neuroscience

High-functioning autistic children appear able to outgrow a critical social communication disability. Younger children with autism have trouble integrating the auditory and visual cues associated…

A new case study outlines the instance of a 60-year-old woman who suddenly began hearing music, as if a radio were playing at the back of her head. She couldn't identify the music but when she hummed…

There is no evidence that impaired blood flow or blockage in the veins of the neck or head is involved in multiple sclerosis, according to a new paper in an open access journal. The finding…

Difficulty in registering and responding to facial expressions is a characteristic of autism and somr functional imaging studies claim that individuals with autism, and its very wide modern spectrum…

The nature of hypnotically suggested changes in perception has been controversial throughout the history of hypnosis.  The major current hypotheses of hypnosis hold that we always actively use…

New research just out in the journal Science Translational Medicine opens the door for treatments capable of stopping Alzheimer’s disease (AD) before its first symptoms, that is to say before crucial…

Near-death experiences may have found a new grounding in science. Whether and how the dying brain is capable of generating conscious activity has been vigorously debated but the near-death…

There is a phenomenon in speech called coarticulation, in which certain sounds are produced differently depending on the sounds that come before or after them. For example, though the letter n is…

Cocaine use may cause profound metabolic changes which can result in dramatic weight gain during recovery, a distressing phenomenon that can lead to relapse - the reason is because chronic cocaine…

Oxytocin, the warm, fuzzy miracle hormone that promotes feelings of love, social bonding and well-being, isn't quite as simple as those miracle-cure-of-the-week newspaper stories want you to believe…