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Using Fruit Flies to Understand How We Sense Hot and Cold
Mar. 4, 2015 — Innately, we pull our hand away when we touch a hot pan on the stove, but little is known about how our brain processes temperature information. Scientists now have discovered how a fruit fly's ... full story -
Mechanism Behind Most Common Form of Inherited Alzheimer's Disease Revealed
Mar. 4, 2015 — For the first time, a study reveals exactly how mutations associated with the most common form of inherited Alzheimer's disease produce the disorder's devastating effects. The paper upends ... full story -
Mental Health Soon After War-Zone Concussions Predicts Disability
Mar. 4, 2015 — Evaluating military personnel with blast-related mild traumatic brain injuries, researchers have found that early symptoms of post-traumatic stress, such as anxiety, emotional numbness, flashbacks ... full story -
Obesity Is Associated With Brain's Neurotransmitters
Mar. 4, 2015 — Researchers have revealed how obesity is associated with altered opioid neurotransmission in the brain. New research reveals how obesity is associated with altered functioning of brain's opioid ... full story -
Oxytocin May Enhance Social Function in Psychiatric Disorders
Mar. 4, 2015 — Inducing the release of brain oxytocin may be a viable therapeutic option for enhancing social function in psychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia, researchers ... full story -
Neuroscientists Identify New Way Several Brain Areas Communicate
Mar. 3, 2015 — Neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain's striatum. The findings illustrate structural and functional connections that allow the ... full story -
ADHD Plus Childhood Trauma Heightens Risk for Self-Harm, Suicide
Mar. 3, 2015 — Young women with ADHD who have been exposed to abuse, neglect or other traumas in childhood and adolescence are at greater risk for self-injury, eating disorders and suicide than those with ADHD who ... full story -
Why Some Brain Cancers Resist Treatment
Mar. 2, 2015 — Scientists may have discovered why some brain cancer patients develop resistance to standard treatments including radiation and the chemotherapy agent ... full story -
Researchers Propose Novel New Treatment of Stroke, Other Neurological Diseases
Mar. 2, 2015 — Medicine should reconsider how it treats stroke and other neurological disorders, focusing on the intrinsic abilities of the brain and nervous system to heal themselves rather than the ... full story -
Low Sugar Uptake in Brain Appears to Exacerbate Alzheimer's Disease
Mar. 2, 2015 — A deficiency in the protein responsible for moving glucose across the brain's protective blood-brain barrier appears to intensify the neurodegenerative effects of Alzheimer's disease, ... full story -
Scientists Crack Piece of Neural Code for Learning, Memory
Mar. 2, 2015 — Researchers describe how postmortem brain slices can be 'read' to determine how a rat was trained to behave in response to specific sounds, a new article suggests. The work provides one of ... full storyMore: -
Cerebral Blood Flow as a Possible Marker for Concussion Outcomes
Mar. 2, 2015 — Cerebral blood flow recovery in the brain could be a biomarker of outcomes in patients following concussion, a new imaging study suggests. Most of the 3.8 million sports-related traumatic brain ... full story -
Results Challenge Conventional Wisdom About Where the Brain Begins Processing Visual Information
Mar. 2, 2015 — Neuroscientists generally think of the front end of the human visual system as a simple light detection system: The patterns produced when light falls on the retina are relayed to the visual cortex ... full story -
Sleep-Walking Neurons: Brain's GPS Never Stops Working -- Even During Sleep
Mar. 2, 2015 — Navigational brain cells that help sense direction are as electrically active during deep sleep as they are during wake time, scientists have discovered. Such information could be useful in treating ... full story -
Insulin Resistance in the Brain, Behavioral Disorders: Direct Link Found
Mar. 2, 2015 — People with diabetes are more prone to anxiety and depression than those with other chronic diseases that require similar levels of management. Genetically modifying mice to make their brains ... full story -
Brain Metastases: Better Outcomes for Those Under 50 Years Old Receiving Stereotactic Radiosurgery Alone
Mar. 2, 2015 — Cancer patients with limited brain metastases (one to four tumors) who are under 50 years old should receive stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) without whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT), according to ... full story -
One Step Closer to Defeating Alzheimer's Disease
Mar. 2, 2015 — Researchers show that toning down the activity of the receptor TREM2 may help put a stop to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's ... full story -
Long-Term Care May Not Be Best for Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury; Other Housing Needed
Mar. 2, 2015 — A new, large-scale Canadian study shows that many adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) live in a long-term health setting – such as a nursing home- which may not be appropriate for their ... full story -
New Target Identified in Fight Against Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis
Mar. 2, 2015 — Highlighting a potential target in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests that triggering a protein found on the surface of brain cells may help ... full story -
Alzheimer Amyloid Clumps Found in Young Adult Brains
Mar. 2, 2015 — Amyloid -- an abnormal protein that's a hallmark of Alzheimer's -- starts accumulating inside neurons of people as young as 20, reports a study. This is the first time amyloid accumulation ... full story
- Using fruit flies to understand how we sense hot and cold
- Mechanism behind most common form of inherited Alzheimer's disease revealed
- Mental health soon after war-zone concussions predicts disability
- Obesity is associated with brain's neurotransmitters
- Oxytocin may enhance social function in psychiatric disorders
- Neuroscientists identify new way several brain areas communicate
- ADHD plus childhood trauma heightens risk for self-harm, suicide
- Why some brain cancers resist treatment
- Researchers propose novel new treatment of stroke, other neurological diseases
- Low sugar uptake in brain appears to exacerbate Alzheimer's disease
- Scientists crack piece of neural code for learning, memory
- Cerebral blood flow as a possible marker for concussion outcomes
- Results challenge conventional wisdom about where the brain begins processing visual information
- Sleep-walking neurons: Brain's GPS never stops working -- even during sleep
- Insulin resistance in the brain, behavioral disorders: Direct link found
- Brain metastases: Better outcomes for those under 50 years old receiving stereotactic radiosurgery alone
- One step closer to defeating Alzheimer's disease
- Long-term care may not be best for adults with traumatic brain injury; other housing needed
- New target identified in fight against Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis
- Alzheimer amyloid clumps found in young adult brains
- Heart valve repair significantly improves emotional wellbeing in patients with mitral regurgitation
- Reviving drugs with anti-stroke potential, minus side effects
- Enhancing studies on a possible blood biomarker for traumatic brain injury
- Study challenges theory on unconscious memory system in the brain
- Left or right? The brain knows before you move
- Calling the shots: Brain's decision-making structure
- Shake it off? Not so easy for people with depression, new brain research suggests
- Method for mapping neuron clusters developed
- Intermediary neuron acts as synaptic cloaking device
- Neurons that help predict what another individual will do identified
- Protein pathway involved in brain tumor stem cell growth identified
- Beliefs can regulate effects of nicotine on the human brain
- Twin study lends new insights into link between back pain and depression
- Optogenetic stimulation of the brain to control pain demonstrated in study
- One brain area, two planning strategies
- Study maps extroversion types in the brain's anatomy
- Hidden gene gives hope for improving brain function
- New study shows decreased aggressive behavior toward strangers in autism spectrum disorder model
- How does the human brain tackle problems it did not evolve to solve?
- Blockbusters: Can EEGs predict a movie's success better than surveys?
- Is your busy schedule affecting your health? Time might not be the problem
- Omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D may control brain serotonin, affecting behavior and psychiatric disorders
- Evolutionary approach reveals new clues toward understanding the roots of schizophrenia
- Retinal swelling in premature infants tied to poorer neuro-development
- Cross-cultural communication: Much more than just a linguistic stretch
- Researchers clarify vasospasm incidence in children with moderate to severe TBI
- Study assesses link of preexisting mental disorders with chronic headaches
- Neuroscientists literally change the way we think: Advantages of a wandering mind
- Sobering effect of the love hormone
- Stuttering: New insight on treatment, physiological basis
- How brain waves guide memory formation
- Brain activity shows infants are hardwired to link images, sounds as they learn to speak
- Study shows how the brain can trigger a deep sleep
- Experimenting preteens may have different brain processes
- New brain mapping reveals unknown cell types
- Mouse embryo with big brain: Evolving a bigger brain with human DNA
- Stem cell specialization observed in the brain
- Sickness and health between men and women
- New hope in the fight against pain: Analgesic drugs could be used to treat patients with neuropathic pain
- Teen brain scans reveal a key to weight loss
- Autism genes activate during fetal brain development
- How stress can lead to inequality
- Recovering attention after a stroke: Brain's right hemisphere may be more valuable
- A bodyguard for your ears: Scientists discover novel pain sensors in inner ear that warn of dangerously loud noise
- Brain's iconic seat of speech goes silent when we actually talk
- Nicotine metabolite amplifies action of the primary chemical messenger for learning, memory
- Is the flame retardant, tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), a reproductive or developmental toxicant?
- New growth factor indicates possible regenerative effects in Parkinson's disease
- Mulling the marijuana munchies: How the brain flips the hunger switch
- The science of teaching: Study finds brain processes that hold the key to understanding students
- New insight into how our brain performs 'mental time travel'
- Brain imaging links language delay to chromosome deletion in children with neurological disorders
- New pathways discovered to prevent blindness
- Multiple sclerosis: New drug target discovered
- Science behind commonly used anti-depressants appears to be backwards, researchers say
- Schizophrenia: Impaired activity of the selective dopamine neurons
- Amyloid formation may link Alzheimer disease and type 2 diabetes
- Auditory brainstem implant: Hearing experts break sound barrier for children born without hearing nerve
- Type 2 diabetes linked to worse performance on cognitive testing
- Promising results for new Alzheimer's therapy
- How mindfulness training affects health
- Curious monkeys share our thirst for knowledge
- Spontaneous activity shapes neuron development
- Neural basis of 'being in the mood': Researchers discover neurons that combine social information with hormonal state in female mice
- Dogs know that smile on your face
- Brain activity can predict increased fat intake following sleep deprivation
- Motorized cycling may prime brain for relearning after stroke
- Parents experience post-traumatic stress disorder after child's stroke
- Cerebral palsy: It can be in your genes
- Depression: A barrier to communication in couples?
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