From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release via EurekAlert!: People who bear the genetic mutation for Huntington’s disease learn faster than healthy people. The more pronounced the mutation was, the more quickly they learned. This is…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release via EurekAlert!: How does one’s experience of an event get translated into a memory that can be accessed months, even years later? A team led by University of…
From the Elsevier Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release via Newswise: Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: With the discovery that the unconscious mind plays a key role in the placebo effect, researchers have identified a novel mechanism that helps explain…
From the University of Helsinki press release via AlphaGalileo: Computer scientists in Finland have developed a method that automatically composes music out of sleep measurements. The composition service works live on the Web at sleepmusicalization.net.…
From the Concordia University press release via EurekAlert!: By the time older adults are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the brain damage is irreparable. For now, modern medicine is able to slow the progression of the…
From the Inderscience Publishers press release via EurekAlert!: A computer is being taught to interpret human emotions based on lip pattern, according to research published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing.…
From the Newcastle University press release via EurekAlert!: The ageing process has its roots deep within the cells and molecules that make up our bodies. Experts have previously identified the molecular pathway that react to…
From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres press release via MedicalXpress: Every activity in the brain involves the transfer of signals between neurons. Frequently, as many as one thousand signals rain down on a…