From the Johns Hopkins University press release via MedicalXpress: Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered a protein that appears to play an important regulatory role in deciding whether stem cells differentiate into the cells that make…
From the University of Edinburgh press release via EurekAlert!: Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us sharp in later life, new research funded by the charity Age UK has found.…
From the Neuroscience Research Australia press release via MedicalXpress: Dr. Muireann Irish from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) found that dementia patients who can no longer recall general knowledge – for example, the names of famous…
From the Centre national de la recherche scientifique press release via MedicalXpress: Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have recently identified in mice the role played by neo-neurons formed in the adult brain.…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release via EurekAlert!: When grabbing a coffee mug out of a cluttered cabinet or choosing a pen to quickly sign a document, what brain processes guide your choices? New…
From the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg press release via AlphaGalileo: A team of researchers led by the psychologists and neuroscientists Prof. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Bernadette von Dawans at the University of Freiburg, Germany, examined in a…
From the University of Montreal press release via EurekAlert!: Fat Bastard’s revelation “I eat because I’m depressed and I’m depressed because I eat” in the Austin Powers film series may be explained by sophisticated neuroscience…
From the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine press release via MedicalXpress: New nerve cells formed in a select part of the brain could hold considerable sway over how much you eat and consequently weigh,…
From the BioMed Central press release via EurekAlert!: Pathological aging (PA) is used to describe the brains of people which have Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-like pathology but where the person showed no signs of cognitive impairment…
From the University of Exeter press release via ScienceDaily: Our ‘gut feelings’ influence our decisions, overriding ‘rational’ thought, when we are faced with financial offers that we deem to be unfair, according to a new…