Neuroscience

Fibromyalgia, widespread general muscle pain and fatigue, has no known causes or effective treatments but small-fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN) has a clear pathology and is known to be caused by…

A Toronto patient has become the second known person to have acquired synesthesia as a result of a brain injury, in this case a stroke.  Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which people…

At a young age, kids learn that the cookies are still there, even though they have been placed in a jar. And they learn that a car driven into a tunnel will reappear on the other side.  The…

A "structure-based" approach to drug design has led to identification of compounds with the potential to delay or treat Alzheimer's disease, and possibly Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's disease and other…

False memories implanted in mice show how easily it is to manipulate recall of events. Image credit: Collective next- taken from the press release (25/7/13): False memories incepted into the mouse…

Homing pigeons fly off from an unknown place in unfamiliar territory and still manage to find their way home. This ability has always been fascinating to humans and nothing would ever happen in "…

If you don't sleep well during a full moon, it is not because you have epigenetically become a werewolf after watching "Twilight" too many times, lunar cycles and human sleep behavior are connected,…

For almost a century, science has been engaged in a quest to study brain waves and learn about mental health and the way we think. It hasn't been easy. The way billions of interconnected neurons…

Walking helps people in lots of ways but a paper in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine (now JAMA Pediatrics) has a new benefit; adolescent girls who walk to school show a…

Aplysia californica is a curious beast indeed. The California sea hare is a species of sea slug; a hermaphroditic gastropod mollusc that feeds on seaweed and occasionally squirts ink if you piss it…