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Popular Video Dancing Game May Reduce Cognitive, Physical Impacts of Multiple Sclerosis
February 27, 2013 Researchers have tested Dance Dance Revolution’s ability to help MS patients. Studies show the video game may help improve balance and mobility in certain patient ... > full story -
Discovery on Animal Memory Opens Doors to Research on Memory Impairment Diseases
February 27, 2013 A new study offers the first evidence of source memory in a nonhuman animal. The findings have fascinating implications, both in evolutionary terms and for future research into the biological ... > full story -
Learning and Stress: Hormone Homer Prevents Stress-Induced Cognitive Deficits
February 27, 2013 Before examinations and in critical situations, we need to be particularly receptive and capable of learning. However, acute exam stress and stage fright causes learning blockades and reduced memory ... > full story -
Ability to Recognize Emotions in Others Impaired by AIDS
February 26, 2013 People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a new study. Reduction in their ability to recognize fear in others is linked to a similar loss in immediate ... > full story -
Linking Insulin to Learning: Insulin-Like Molecules Play Critical Role in Learning and Memory
February 26, 2013 Though it's most often associated with disorders like diabetes, scientists have shown how the pathway of insulin and insulin-like peptides plays another critical role in the body -- helping to ... > full story -
Researchers Test Holographic Technique for Restoring Vision
February 26, 2013 Researchers are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration. Computer-generated holography, they ... > full story -
Cell Discovery Could Hold Key to Causes of Inherited Diseases
February 26, 2013 Fresh insights into the protective seal that surrounds the DNA of our cells could help develop treatments for inherited muscle, brain, bone and skin disorders. Researchers have discovered that the ... > full story -
Controlling Element of Huntington's Disease Discovered: Molecular Troika Regulates Production of Harmful Protein
February 26, 2013 A three molecule complex may be a target for treating Huntington's disease, a genetic disorder affecting the ... > full story -
Eat Too Much? Maybe It's in the Blood: Blood Marrow Derived Cells Regulate Appetite
February 26, 2013 Bone marrow cells that produce brain-derived neurotrophic factor, known to affect regulation of food intake, travel to part of the hypothalamus in the brain where they "fine-tune" appetite, said ... > full story -
Blueprint for an Artificial Brain: Scientists Experiment With Memristors That Imitate Natural Nerves
February 26, 2013 Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a brain is far more energy-saving than a computer, it can learn by itself, and it doesn't ... > full story
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