Neuroscience

To Brains, Even Common Gestures Unfamiliar

system is necessary to think about the meaning of a gesture. Lisa Aziz-Zadeh.  Credit: USC “When you ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2010 - 4:00am

Neuroimaging Love- Romance Is More Scientific Than You Think

yes, according to the researchers, who found falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2010 - 9:46pm

Ecstasy- Now With Less Cognitive Impairment

truth about their drug and alcohol use. So does this mean that ecstasy really is the risk-free, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2011 - 8:12pm

A Live View of Unconsciousness

learn more about the differences between an unaware and aware brain and how these differences might lead ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jun 14 2011 - 9:46pm

How Easy Is It To Falsify Memory? It Just Takes A Little Social Pressure

test, answering questions about the film. They were also asked how confident they were in their ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2012 - 10:31am

The Shrinking Brain

similar effects occur in the brains of rhesus monkeys (which diverged from the ‘human lineage’ about 30 ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 29 2011 - 12:40am

Complex Machinery in the Neuron, Vesicle Budding and Fusion, Transcription, and More

proteins can fluctuate between these different shapes. While we are still discovering more about these ...

Blog Post - Jon Lieff MD - Mar 12 2012 - 5:21pm

Laugh While You Can, Monkey Brains

a peculiar spindle shape and is about three times as large. Evrard and his team at the Max Planck Institute ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2012 - 9:38pm

Social Intervention And Prx6 Protein Helps Bees Reverse Brain Aging

the nest and larvae. Researchers discovered that after 10 days, about 50 percent of the older bees ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2012 - 12:36pm

Magnetosensory Perception? Why Powerlines Confuse Animal Migration

Use caution when worrying about something that doesn't exist. Citation: Stephan H.K. Eder, Hervé ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2012 - 5:11pm