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,…
From the McGill media release: The age at which children learn a second language can have a significant bearing on the structure of their adult brain, according to a new joint study by the Montreal…
From the New York University media release: A team of neuroscientists has found a key to the reduction of forgetting. Their findings, which appear in the journal Neuron, show that the better the coordination between two…
From the Columbia University Medical Center media release: A team of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, has found that deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in…
From the University of North Carolina School of Medicine media release: A new genome-wide association study (GWAS) estimates the number of different places in the human genome that are involved in schizophrenia. In particular, the…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison media release: It is natural to imagine that the sense of sight takes in the world as it is — simply passing on what the eyes collect from light reflected…
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine media release: Perelman School of Medicine researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report the first biomarker results reported from the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), showing that…
From the University of Alabama at Birmingham media release: Key details of the way nerve cells in the brain remember pleasure are revealed in a study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers published…