From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: Maintaining a healthy body weight may be difficult for many people, but it’s reassuring to know that our brains and bodies are wired to…
From the Mount Sinai Hospital press release via EurekAlert: New research presented in October at the 6th Neurodegenerative Conditions Research and Development Conference in San Francisco demonstrates the role of the investigational compound IRX4204 in…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: While studying the sense of touch, scientists at Duke Medicine have pinpointed specific neurons that appear to regulate perception. The sensory neurons are characterized by…
From the McLean Hospital press release via HealthCanal: Previous research has shown that cognitive performance is associated with regular exercise among children and elderly, and now researchers at Harvard Medical School’s McLean Hospital have shown…
From the Lund University press release via ScienceDaily: Introducing a light-sensitive protein in transgenic nerve cells … transplanting nerve cells into the brains of laboratory animals … inserting an optic fibre in the brain and…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: Children with migraine are more likely to have below average school performance than kids who do not have headaches, according to new research published in…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) have found a small population of neurons that is involved in measuring time,…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: Achieving mindfulness through meditation has helped people maintain a healthy mind by quelling negative emotions and thoughts, such as desire, anger and anxiety, and encouraging…
From the Emory University press release by Carol Clark via ScienceDaily: The ability to learn complex, symbolic math is a uniquely human trait, but it is intricately connected to a primitive sense of magnitude that…
From the UC Davis press release via EurekAlert!: An intensive early intervention therapy that is effective for improving cognition and language skills among very young children with autism also normalizes their brain activity, decreases their…