Tag: brain

Whether we're assigned a learning task or choose to follow it, those subjects that interest us are always easier to ...

sing designer genes, researchers at UB and Harvard were able to 'turn on' specific neurons in the brainstem that result ...

A Chinese woman has shocked doctors when it was revealed that she reached 24 years without having a cerebellum. It is ...

This musician played the violin while he was having a brain surgery. But why? This is by no means an ...

Marijuana has a lot of medical potential, but it can also have some negative effects, especially if taken regularly. A ...

Recent findings suggest that our general cognitive abilities are heavily influenced by key regions of the brain involved in social ...

Photo: littleanswer.com Researchers at the School of Psychology, University of Vienna surveyed 13000 adults from Austria and Germany and found ...

When I was a kid, I asked, like many others, how do bees know how to make their way back ...

Researchers have erased and then reactivated memories in rats, profoundly impacting the animals' reaction to past events. This is the ...

The Neurogrid circuit board can simulate orders of magnitude more neurons and synapses than other brain mimics on the power ...

Photo: NeuroImage A common brain myth is that creative people, like artists, use their right part of the brain more, ...

The red and green brain slice (left) illustrates activity levels for a single gene. The multicolor slice (right) is a ...

The most basic fabric of civilization was woven on the principles of moral judgement, that is to say serving the ...

A new drug causes brain cancer cells in mice to explode. (c) Cell A potentially game changing drug developed by ...

It's a little out of this world - a psychology graduate student at the University of Ottawa says she can ...

Illustration: Michael Helfenbein In most of the world, winter long ground to a halt to make way for more harmonious ...

If you've ever had a nice fuzzy feeling whenever you heard the voice of a loved one, then, you're not ...

An imbalance in chloride ions during a fetus’s development is one of the factors for autism, study shows. Some children ...

Human embryonic stem cells can be induced into forming a developing brain tissue. The brain development process represents one of ...

Photo: telegraph.co.uk What evolutionary traits helped humans become the dominant species on Earth? Our dexterous limbs and complex nervous system ...

M.P., a kindergarten teacher and expert reader, was hit by a stroke and, in the aftermath, her brain underwent some ...

An international team of researchers believes they have found a way to reopen critical learning periods in the brain, allowing ...

Drawing illustrates a rat with a BMBI attached to the skull retrieving food. Photo courtesy: Case Western Reserve University Case ...

Neural map of a typical man's brain. Credits: National Academy of Sciences/PA A new study which involved the analysis of ...

The human brain is possibly the most complex entity in the Universe. It's absolutely remarkable and beautiful to contemplate, and ...

Photo by Moyan Brenn In the US alone there are an estimated 100 million daily coffee drinkers, each contributing to ...

Some people are better navigators than others, i.e. men better than women. Whether you can make your way effortlessly through ...

It may not look like much, but this weird looking coal-like thing is actually a 4.000 year old preserved brain, ...

Einstein's brain was preserved after his death in 1955, but this fact was not revealed until 1986. Mere hours after ...

(c) oxbridgebiotech.com After they identified precise groups of cells in mice brain that induce eating and others that curb it, ...

In one of Stanley Kubrick's weirdest movies (even by Kubrick standards), "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying ...

Every time we're engaged in a certain action, the sounds we produce while walking, eating, even playing music are tuned ...

Most medical research looking to identify the mechanisms of a disease or test treatments rely on animal models. While very ...

In a mind-boggling and, frankly, a bit frightening breakthrough, researchers at University of Washington have devised a brain-to-brain interface that for ...

Farmers, with the help of researchers in the field, have been desperately trying to develop new insecticides that can ward ...

It's clear that humans are now, more than ever, a driving force in evolutionary biology. Early domestication efforts through breeding ...

Researchers use a special tool called a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into tiny ...

It's the early 1950s, and some strange experiments are going on at Tulane University in Louisiana. Well, maybe not weird, ...

A single molecular switch can make the transition between the active, malleable brain of an adolescent and the mature, stable ...

In an incredible feat of neuroscience and communications, researchers at Duke University School of Medicine formed a link between pairs of ...

A new study published by MIT revealed, for the first time, what happens inside the brain when you go unconscious. ...

For scientists, the most common method of assessing an animal's intelligence is by looking at its relative brain size, with ...

The filaments created by a slime mold, along with the slime left behind on travel paths. These gooey deposits allows ...

Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) in one of the most memorable scenes from the cult classic motion picture American Psycho. His ...

This digitized image made from a screen shot of a new iPad app, provided Sept. 24, 2012 by the National ...

Someone whose been driving for 20 years, let's say, in the United States and somehow ends up driving a car ...

The most complex object on Earth is the human brain. However, even though it's intertwined by billions of nerve fibers ...

In the not so distant future, scientists could be able to eavesdrop on a patient's inner monologues or communicate with ...

What if you could increase your ability to remember with a pill?  This may not be an idea just for ...

The brain learns basically by shifting between different strengths of its synapses, as a response to different stimuli - that ...