From the University of Chicago press release: The human brain works in rhythms and cycles. These patterns occur at predictable frequencies that depend on what a person is doing and on what part of the…
From the Keck Medicine of USC press release: Long before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease become apparent to patients and their families, biological changes are occurring within the brain. Amyloid plaques, which are clusters of protein fragments,…
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München press release: In the mammalian auditory system, sound waves impinging on the tympanic membrane of the ear are transduced into electrical signals by sensory hair cells and transmitted via the auditory nerve…
From the McMaster University press release: The visual cortex, the human brain’s vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature and stabilize in the first few years of life, actually continues to develop until sometime…
From the Elsevier press release: Many people have suggested that addiction hijacks the body’s natural drives in the service of compulsive drug use. A new study now suggests that hijacking another natural system in the…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: A recent study conducted at Baycrest Health Sciences has uncovered a crucial piece into why playing a musical instrument can help older adults retain their listening skills…
From the University of Turku press release: New Finnish research reveals how the brain’s opioids modulate responses towards other people’s pain. Recent results obtained by researchers from Turku PET Centre and Aalto University have revealed…
From the University of Plymouth press release: A research team from the University of Plymouth, University of Southampton and the Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Vari, Greece, have studied two structurally-similar proteins in the…
From the UT Southwestern Medical Center press release: Scientists have identified more than 100 genes linked to memory, opening new avenues of research to better understand memory processing in the human brain. A study at the…
From the University College London press release: UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something, by studying how user reviews on Amazon influence how…