From the Monash University press release via ScienceDaily: New treatments to lessen the severity of the more than 21,000 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases that occur in Australia each year are on the horizon. Published…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Synapses are modified through learning. Up until now, scientists believed that a particular form of synaptic plasticity in the brain’s hippocampus was responsible for learning spatial relations. This was based…
From the ecancermedicalscience press release via AlphaGalileo: The Welsh cancer charity Tenovus and Cardiff University, both based in the UK, have reported that participation in a choir improves a number of quality of life factors…
From the Emory University press release by Carol Clark: The first major study on the biological effects of omega-3 fatty acids on the human brain is focusing on the role that this natural substance, primarily…
From the Monash University press release: When learning to master complex movements such as those required in surgery, is being physically guided by an expert more effective than learning through trial and error? New research…
From the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry via EurekAlert!: Researchers from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, will present the findings of a new study suggesting a link between…
From the UC San Diego press release via ScienceDaily: Using a two-photon microscope capable of peering deep within living tissue, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found new evidence…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release via EurekAlert!: Anyone who has looked at the jagged recording of the electrical activity of a single neuron in the brain must have wondered how any…
From the UT Dallas press release via EurekAlert!: UT Dallas researchers recently demonstrated how nerve stimulation paired with specific experiences, such as movements or sounds, can reorganize the brain. This technology could lead to new…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Neuroeconomics experts and guest editors of the Biological Psychiatry special issue Carla Sharp, John Monterosso, and P. Read Montague in an introductory paper define neuroeconomics as “an interdisciplinary…