From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) press release via AlphaGalileo: Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers based in Munich, Berkeley and Bordeaux have now succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons…
From the UC Santa Cruz press release: New connections between brain cells emerge in clusters in the brain as animals learn to perform a new task, according to a study published in Nature on February…
From the Wellcome Trust press release: Every generation has its James Dean: the rebel who refuses to follow the path beaten by their peers. Now, a new study in Current Biology has found a link…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: Just as expert chess players scrutinize a board to calculate their next moves, UT Dallas cognitive neuroscientists are studying the way these players’ brains work to…
From the Henry Ford Health System press release: If you’re a left brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear, according to a new…
From the Yale University press release by Bill Hathaway: When first exposed to cocaine, the adolescent brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug’s effects, Yale and other scientists have found. Now…
From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Most people learn to count when they are children. Yet surprisingly, not all languages have words for numbers. A recent study published in the journal of…
From the University of Connecticut press release via EurekAlert!: Most people only think about drinking water when they are thirsty; but by then it may already be too late. Even mild dehydration can alter a…
From the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia press release via EurekAlert!: A new study from the Infant Brain Imaging Network, which includes researchers at the Center for Autism Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP),…
From the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council press release via EurekAlert!: How we perceive the world tells us a lot about how the brain processes sensory information. At this week’s meeting of the American…