Neuroscience

The Whale, The Torpedo And Cruelty To Animals Part 3 The Age of Electrophysiology “The history of electrophysiology has been decided by the history of electrical recording instruments”Edgar Douglas…

The Whale, The Torpedo And Cruelty To Animals,a brief history of the use of electricity in medicine and the development of the pacemaker. Part 2: The Age Of The ElectriciansPart 1, was about early…

The Whale, The Torpedo And Cruelty To Animals, A brief history of the use of electricity in medicine and the development of the pacemaker. It has become something of a cliché to compare nerve cells…

A University of Missouri study found that the testosterone levels of men dropped when they interacted with the wife of a close friend. What does this mean? Testosterone is the chemical of sexual…

Neuroscientists have long demonstrated that neuronal connections in the brain can be strengthened with neuronal activity in the process known as neuroplasticity, and that brain training can be the…

President Obama’s recently announced effort to map the human brain and existing European efforts like the Human Brain Project are taking direct aim at neurological disorders and diseases. …

A technique reported in Nature Biotechnology directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other so-called myelin disorders…

Brain studies are a mass of contradictions. When you leave your job and your home and your technology behind for a vacation, you 'disconnect' some claim. "Actually, you've just given your brain a…

New research has questioned the reliability of neuroscience studies, concluding that most had an average power of around 20 percent – a finding which means the chance of the average study discovering…

Building on work done by Dominic ffytche et al in 2000, which delineates more than a dozen types of hallucinations, particularly in relation to people with Charles Bonnet syndrome (a condition that…