Researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by blocking the enzyme known as HDAC2. With the number of worldwide Alzheimer’s victims expected to double every 20 years, this research could help lead to an effective treatment and reduction of Alzheimer’s victims. MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of [...]

A team of neuroscientists at the School of Medicine at UCLA have demonstrated that they can strengthen memory in human patients by stimulating the entorhinal cortex. While studying patients with electrodes implanted in their brains, the researchers used a video game to test whether deep-brain stimulation of the entorhinal cortex or the hippocampus altered recall. [...]

Using bexarotene, which is FDA approved for cancer treatment, a team of neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine found that the use of the drug in mice appears to reverse the pathological, cognitive and memory deficits caused by the onset of Alzheimer’s. The researchers found that bexarotene acts by stimulating retinoid X [...]

Researchers at Harvard and MIT are studying the different waves of electrical activity produced by different brain states. The brain produces vastly different waves when it is alert, sleeping, relaxed, and when it goes into certain deeply quiescent states during general anesthesia or a coma. By studying the behavior of neurons in the brain, the [...]

UC Berkeley neuroscientists are hoping to be able to hear the unsaid words of patients in the near future. While conducting their research, they were able to decode the electrical activity in the brain’s temporal lobe as a person listens to normal conversation, which in turn allowed them to predict the words the person had [...]

New research by neuroscientists and child psychiatrists show that children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus. This is the first research of its kind to show the link between a mother’s nurturing and changes in the hippocampus, which is a key brain structure important to learning, memory and [...]

While studying fruit flies, neuroscientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered a major clue in how synapses stay strong and keep long-term memories alive. Their research hints that oligomers play a larger role in the brain than previously thought and that self-sustaining populations of oligomers located at synapses may be the key to [...]

Neuroscientists found that mice, like humans, have distinct processing streams in visual cortical areas and plan to use this to explore more deeply the neurological basis of behavior. Harvard researchers are studying how distinct brain areas respond to different visual stimuli in the visual cortex of mice. They believe the findings will open new avenues [...]

MIT neuroscientists are studying the patterns of brain activity that correlate with empathy. They hope to use their findings to determine how well people respond to reconciliation programs aimed at boosting empathy between groups in conflict, since compassion for others suffering often fails between members of opposing conflict groups. MIT postdoc Emile Bruneau has long [...]

How does the human brain recognize faces and distinguish between genuine faces and objects that resemble faces? A new study by Professor Pawan Sinha at MIT and his colleagues indicates that looked at brain activity indicates that both hemispheres are involved in this decision. Objects that resemble faces are everywhere. Whether it’s New Hampshire’s erstwhile [...]