From the American Academy of Neurology press release: Imagine waking up and being unable to see or recognize anything on the left side of your body. This condition, called hemispatial… Read more »
From the RIKEN (Japan) press release via EurekAlert!: In a new study to appear in Neuron, scientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) have uncovered mechanisms that help our… Read more »
From the Wellcome Trust press release via EurekAlert!: Acquiring ‘the Knowledge’ – the complex layout of central London’s 25,000 streets and thousands of places of interest – causes structural changes… Read more »
From the National Science Foundation press release: New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano,… Read more »
From the UCLA press release: Our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more than people realize, a new UCLA psychology study shows. “If we think of the… Read more »
From the University of Chicago Medical Center press release: The first evidence of empathy-driven helping behavior in rodents has been observed in laboratory rats that repeatedly free companions from a… Read more »
From the Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research press release via MedicalXpress: A team of neurobiologists around Andreas Lüthi at the Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research has shown for… Read more »
From the University of Warwick press release: Human minds have hit an evolutionary “sweet spot†and – unlike computers – cannot continually get smarter without trade-offs elsewhere, according to research… Read more »
From the Max Planck Institute press release: As dizzying as it may sound, the impression that we are living in a 3D world is actually a continuous fabrication of our… Read more »
From the Max Planck Institute news release: Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is the most abundant peptide hormone of the central nervous system. It is involved in various processes including stress management,… Read more »
