Neuroscience

Oxytocin As Amplifier And Suppressor Of Neural Signals In The Brain

nest. These adult mice quickly learned to set about fetching the pups, picking them up by the scruffs of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2015 - 5:14pm

Major Vascular Anomalies In Brains Of People With Huntington's Disease

Although scientists have long known the cause of Huntington's disease, little is known about the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2015 - 8:47am

Babies Feel Pain 'Like Adults', Finds MRI Study

particularly important when it comes to pain: obviously babies can't tell us about their experience of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2015 - 8:00am

Some Neurons Outsource Their Cell Body

description of nerve cells by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, there have been many speculations about the reasons for ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2015 - 2:18pm

Insomnia Linked To Greater Pain Sensitivity

targeting both conditions.   Subjects were asked about various types of sleep impairment, including ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2015 - 9:00am

How Do Neurons And Blood Vessels Communicate?

vessels in the cerebral cortex. To date, we know very little about how neurons communicate with ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2015 - 3:30pm

Emotional Brains Are 'Physically Different' From Rational Ones

questions about whether some kinds of empathy could be increased through training, or whether people can ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2015 - 10:30am

Cannabis Use May Influence Brain Maturation In Young Males

genetic and environmental factors." "Brain aging is about brain development," said Dr. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2015 - 8:00am

New Mechanism Discovered Behind Infant Epilepsy

imbalance in this system thus brings about severe infant epilepsy, a potentially treatable disease. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2015 - 10:00am

Spontaneous Rare Mutations Cause Half Of Autism

to play a causal role in ASD. The team pares down a list of about 500 likely causal genes to slightly ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2015 - 6:30am