From the NIH media release: The structure of the brain may predict whether a person will suffer chronic low back pain, according to researchers who used brain scans. The results, published in the journal Pain, support…
From the Cell Press media release: What if doctors could visualize all of the processes that take place in the brain during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease? Such a window would provide a…
From the Dartmouth College media release: Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other…
From the University of Oxford media release: A genetic study has identified a biological process that influences whether we are right handed or left handed. Scientists at the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Bristol and…
From the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio media release: Research from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio suggests the exciting possibility of…
From the University of Haifa media release: Today’s primary tool for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease is the diagnostic ability of the physician, who can generally identify the clinical symptoms only when the disease is at a…
From the University of California – Davis Health System media release: The degeneration of a small, wishbone-shaped structure deep inside the brain may provide the earliest clues to future cognitive decline, long before healthy older…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) media release: Prosopagnosia (face blindness) may be temporarily improved following inhalation of the hormone oxytocin. This is the finding of research led by Dr Sarah Bate and Dr Rachel…
From the Salk Institute for Biological Studies media release: Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 26 million people worldwide. It is predicted to skyrocket as boomers age — nearly 106 million people are projected to have…
From the Society for Neuroscience media release: Sleep increases the reproduction of the cells that go on to form the insulating material on nerve cell projections in the brain and spinal cord known as myelin,…