Scientists Find Cure for Neurocysticercosis, a Major Cause of Seizures
Neurocysticercosis is caused when people ingest pork that has gone bad and is the root cause of several types of seizures. In a new study…
Neuroscience
Stimulating the Entorhinal Cortex Boosts Memory
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…
FDA Approved Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice
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…
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Could Be Harnessed by Military
If the military embraces the latest developments in neuroscience, soldiers could have their minds directly plugged into weapons systems, undergo brain scans during recruitment and…
Neuroscientists Create Model to Study Burst Suppression and Brain States
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…
Scientists Create Brain Cells from Skin Cells
For the first time, scientists from the University of Cambridge have created cerebral cortex cells from a sample of human skin. The scientists were able…
A Quest to Map Brain Connections and Understand Connectomes
Neuroscientists are studying the connections between the billions of neurons in the brain and believe they hold the key to our memories, personality and even…
Researchers Record Detailed Live Images Inside the Brain of a Living Mouse
Using the STED microscopy developed by Stephan Hell, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry recorded the first ever detailed live images inside…
Alzheimer’s Spreads Throughout the Brain by Jumping From Neuron to Neuron
A new study that was published in the February 1st issue of PLoS One suggests that the tau protein, which is indicative of the fibrous…
Synchronized Brain Oscillations Crucial for Short-Term Memory
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics are studying how different brain regions cooperate during memory. While testing monkeys with images for visual…
Human Brains Take Longer to Wire Up Than Simian Ones
Human brains make synaptic connections throughout much of childhood, and the brain’s plasticity enables humans to slowly wire them based upon experiences, contrary to how…
Researchers Use fMRI to Study How Humor Activates Kids’ Brain Regions
Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine examined which brain regions were active as children watched funny videos. Through the use of a functional magnetic…
Neuroscientists Decode Correlation Between Sound and Brain Activity
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…
Mother’s Nurturing Results in Larger Hippocampus in Children
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…
Listening to Mozart Can Make You Smarter but No More than Justin Bieber
It’s believed that listening to Mozart and other classical music recordings will make the listener smarter, but this is a misconception as there’s nothing unique…
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: The Ethics of Brain Boosting
Prominent Oxford neuroscientists are teaming up with ethicists to consider the issues raised by brain stimulating techniques. They recently spoke on BBC’s Radio 4 morning…
Neuroscientists Discover that Drosophila Orb2 Plays Role in Long-Term Memory
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…
Reprogrammed Cells Suggest Path towards Alzheimer’s Early Diagnosis
A new study has shown that skin cells harvested from patients with Alzheimer’s disease can be reprogrammed to form brain cells, offering clues to dementia…
