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According to a study published in the online journal of the American Academy of Neurology, patients with a special diet are less likely to suffer the brain... Read More »
Efforts to help people with learning impairments are being aided by the sea snail Aplysia californica. Neuroscientists from the University of Texas Health... Read More »
Recently, scientists were able to grow a pituitary gland using embryonic stem cells. The pituitary gland is sort of the “brain” of the endocrine system... Read More »
Neuroscientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are using computerized machine learning (ML) methods to analyze and predict mental states. In a new... Read More »
The horrors of Alzheimer’s disease are well known, and the specter of this disease will fall over most of us in one way or another. Enormous quantities of ... Read More »
In traumatic brain injuries, minutes matter. Quick detection and treatment can prevent permanent brain damage and save lives. Researchers at the U.S. National... Read More »
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, causes problems with thinking, memory and behavior. Individuals with Alzheimer’s experience... Read More »
Research indicates that small toxin protein assemblies that aggregate Alzheimer's disease may be treated with a red dye found in lichens. Traditionally, the dye... Read More »
The drug peddling gangsters and cartels of tomorrow may be more "nanotech kingpin" than "Pablo Escobar" according to an extensive study by a... Read More »
New research into psychopathy has provided evidence for the physiological nature of this mental disorder that takes it further from the realm of psychology into the... Read More »
Pfizer announced that their drug, Vyndaqel, has been approved by the European Commission. The drug was created to treat Transthyretin Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy... Read More »
Consciousness is tricky. There is little understanding of consciousness, and there is no universally agreed upon definition of consciousness. So how can we tell if a... Read More »
Are you having trouble staying awake? Did you get enough sleep? Is it a warm spring day with the sun shining bright? Are you performing a task that should be engaging ... Read More »
An enlightened decision by the National Institutes of Health has freed up crucial transgenic strains of mice whose use for research was being threatened by a patent... Read More »
On August 25, 2011 Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C (J&JPRD) received approval from the US Food and Drug... Read More »
Sufferers of allergic rhinitis (hay fever) have all experienced the days of runny noses, swollen red eyes and itchy skin. Most allergy sufferers have probably tried... Read More »
In addition to damaging the immune system, HIV may also damage brain circuitry. Fifty percent of HIV patients develop cognitive decline, which is associated with a... Read More »
The movie 'Limitless' features the character Eddie Morra (played by Bradley Cooper) as an average author who gains genius intelligence after taking a pill. He ... Read More »
In a Duke University laboratory, a monkey uses a brain-computer interface to control a digital monkey arm and literally feel the texture of objects in a virtual... Read More »
Undergraduates at research universities make up an overwhelmingly disproportionate number of participants in cognitive science experiments, such as psycholinguistic... Read More »