MIT Neuroscientists Demonstrate Controlling Attention With Brain Waves
Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves. Having trouble paying attention? MIT neuroscientists may have a solution for…
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Why Do We Freeze When Startled? Columbia Researchers Uncover Neurochemical Mechanism
Why do we freeze when startled? New study in flies points to serotonin. Columbia researchers uncover mechanism that produces the fly’s startle response, offers clues…
Scientists Discover the Origin of Brain Mapping Diversity for Eye Dominance [Video]
The human visual brain devotes most of its neuronal resources to process the part of the visual scene that we see with both eyes. To…
The Space-Time Fabric of Brain Networks – Neuroscientists Decode Neuronal Activity
Researchers have discovered how neuronal networks are able to generate activity sequences for meaningful behavior. Neuroscientists at the Bernstein Center Freiburg (BCF) of the University…
The Science of a Hit Song – Unlocking the Secrets of Musical Pleasure
Why is it that people find songs such as James Taylor’s “Country Roads,” UB40’s “Red, Red Wine,” or The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” so irresistibly enjoyable?…
New Way to Treat Hypersensitivity to Noise and Other Neurological Disorders
Findings in mice suggest targeting certain brain circuits could offer new ways to treat some neurological disorders. People with autism often experience hypersensitivity to noise…
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shows How the Brain Repurposes Unused Regions
Listening triggers synchronized activity in the ‘visual’ cortex in blind adults. In adults that are born blind, the “visual” cortex is activated in a similar…
Neuroscientists Make Major Breakthrough in 200-Year-Old Puzzle – New Psychophysical Law
For centuries, the mental world of the mind and the physical world were treated as utterly distinct. While the movement of inanimate objects could be…
Johns Hopkins Breakthrough Opens the Door for Stem Cell Transplants to Repair the Brain
Transplanted brain stem cells survive without anti-rejection drugs in mice. By exploiting a feature of the immune system, researchers open the door for stem cell…
Analyzing Brain Activity to Detect and Treat Patient Pain Even When Unconscious
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a system that measures a patient’s pain level by analyzing brain activity from a portable neuroimaging device. The…
Key Brain Circuit Controls Individual Responses to Temptation
Differences in how individual rats respond to ‘reward cues’, which have been linked to compulsive behaviors such as substance abuse and overeating, can be traced…
Watching Music Move Through the Brain
Listening to and remembering music involve different cognitive processes. Scientists have observed how the human brain represents a familiar piece of music, according to research…
Neuroscientist: Animal Brains Key for Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence
CSHL neuroscientist Anthony Zador shows how evolution and animal brains can be a rich source of inspiration for machine learning, especially to help AI tackle…
Safer Pain Medications Possible After Discovery of Anti-Opioid Pathway
A team at Scripps Research in Florida has discovered a biological system that manages cells’ response to opioid drug exposure. The unexpected discovery offers new…
Three Distinct Brain Circuits Lead Us to Make Bad and Good Decisions
A prevailing theory in neuroscience holds that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal cortex of the brain. However,…
Scientists Restore Partial Brain Function Hours After Death
Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig’s brain four hours after its death, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the timing and…
Neuroscientists Devise New Technique To Preserve Biological Tissue
MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have devised a new way to preserve biological tissue, allowing them to visualize proteins, DNA, and other molecules within cells,…
Study Shows Connection Between Brain Size and Cognitive Performance
Using a larger dataset than all previous studies on the subject combined, researchers found a small but significant connection between brain size and cognitive performance….