From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via ScienceDaily: Can you teach an old dog (or human) new tricks? Yes, but it might take time, practice, and hard work before he or she gets it…
From the New York Stem Cell Foundation press release via ScienceDaily: A team of scientists at The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Laboratory led by Scott Noggle, PhD, NYSCF-Charles Evans Senior Research Fellow for…
From the California Institute of Technology press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) pioneered the study of the link between irregularities in the immune system and neurodevelopmental disorders such as…
From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) press release via ScienceDaily: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is more treatable than previously thought. A novel method has shown to be remarkably effective. The method, called…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Using adult stem cells, Johns Hopkins researchers and a consortium of colleagues nationwide say they have generated the type of human neuron specifically damaged by Parkinson’s…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a cause-and-effect relationship between two well-established biological risk factors for schizophrenia previously believed to be independent of one another.…
From the Georgia Tech press release: Georgia Tech researchers have created a wireless, musical glove that may improve sensation and motor skills for people with paralyzing spinal cord injury (SCI). The gadget was successfully used…
From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center have found that people with a form of mild cognitive impairment…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: What can explain extreme differences in altruism among individuals, from Ebenezer Scrooge to Mother Teresa? It may all come down to variation in the size and activity…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release by Michael C. Purdy via ScienceDaily: Scientists have assembled the most detailed chronology to date of the human brain’s long, slow slide into full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.…