Neuroscience

How Does Your Brain Tell Time? Study Challenges Theory Of Inner Clock

a large number of brain cells to determine whether they encode information about the timing of stimuli. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2007 - 1:45pm

Get Ready For A Bionic Eye

“Perhaps what we’re most excited about in this next study,” Humayun said, “is, similar to the first ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2007 - 10:29am

Is Schizophrenia In The Eyes?

it the costliest form of mental illness known to humankind. It has a strong genetic component; about ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2007 - 12:47am

Postnatal Health And Sexual Problems Persist One Year After Delivery

example, it has highlighted concerns about the long-term health effects resulting from forceps deliveries ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2007 - 9:07am

Researchers Reveal Structure Of Protein Altered In Autism

three-dimensional structure of the normal protein, researchers can now make predictions about how mutations in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2007 - 4:11pm

Ret Chip For The Diagnosis Of Hereditary Diseases Of The Retina Due Mid-July

genes and in finding the genes that cause the hereditary eye disorder. “There are about 40 different ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2007 - 5:18am

Pitocin At Birth Could Have Lifelong Consequences

harmful effects. He said he's very conservative about making such extrapolations. "We have no ...

Article - Susan Kuchinskas - Sep 14 2007 - 1:44pm

Sleep Deprivation And The Brain's Emotional 'Disconnect'

awake for about 35 hours—or a normal sleep group. On the following day, the study subjects’ brains were ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2010 - 11:12am

Researchers Chase Synaptojanin's Role In Neurotransmission

"vesicle," of neurotransmitter chemicals. Each synapse has only about 100 of these packets. "Endocytosis ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2007 - 8:30am

Study: Butterfly Memory Can Recall Uglier Caterpillar Days

about the organization and persistence of the central nervous system during metamorphosis. “The ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2008 - 9:52pm