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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Liberal or Conservative? Brain Responses to Disgusting Images Help Reveal Political Leanings
According to a new study, how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether you are liberal or conservative. In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Current Biology, an international team of scientists reports that the …
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Monday, November 3, 2014
New Technology Shows Promise for Treatment of Brain Tumors
A new technology that may assist in the treatment of brain cancer and other neurological diseases is the subject of a recent article in the journal Technology. According to the authors, the current medical use of chemotherapy to treat brain cancer can …
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Monday, November 3, 2014
New Window of Opportunity to Prevent Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases Identified
According to a study conducted by a team of cardiologists, neuroscientists and psychiatrists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, future prevention and treatment strategies for vascular diseases may lie in the evaluation of early brain imaging …
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Reminiscing Can Help Boost Mental Performance
New research shows for the first time that engaging brain areas linked to off-task mental activities, such as daydreaming and reminiscing, can actually boost performance on some challenging mental tasks. Researchers developed a new approach in which …
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Friday, October 31, 2014
New Insight on Link Between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease
In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers from the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute revealed the process that leads to changes in the brains of individuals with Down syndrome — the same changes that cause dementia in Alzheimer …
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Hidden Brain Signatures of Consciousness Found in Vegetative-state Patients
A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Cambridge and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge have used high-density electroencephalographs (EEG) and a branch of math known as ‘graph theory’ to study networks of …
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Mathematical Model Shows How the Brain Remains Stable During Learning
Complex biochemical signals that coordinate fast and slow changes in neuronal networks keep the brain in balance during learning, according to a study recently published in Neuron. The work represents a six-year quest by a collaborative team from the …
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Immune Proteins Regulate Brain-cell Connections
Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), recently found that an immune-system protein called MHCI, moonlights in the nervous system to help regulate the number of synapses. The research, published in the …
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Fairness is in the Brain
Economists from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and researchers from the University of Bergen (UiB) have worked together to assess the relationship between fairness, equality, work and money. The research team from the two institutions looked …
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Monday, October 27, 2014
Study: Two Prognoses in Pilocytic Astrocytoma
Pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) is a primarily pediatric brain tumor caused mainly by mutations in the BRAF gene. In fact, there are two specific mechanisms for activation of BRAF implicated in PA formation: by fusion of the gene with nearby gene KIAA …
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