From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via Newswise: Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered that the central nervous system’s oligodendroglia cells, long believed to simply insulate nerves as they “fire” signals, are unexpectedly…
From the University of Zürich press release via EurekAlert!: The volume of a small brain region influences one’s predisposition for altruistic behavior. Researchers from the University of Zurich show that people who behave more altruistically…
From the UC San Diego press release via EurekAlert!: In the current online issue of PLoS ONE, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say they have identified a set of…
From the University of Toronto press release: Two powerful brain chemical systems work together to paralyze skeletal muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, according to new research in the July 11 issue of The…
From the IOS Press press release via MedicalXpress: In the last ten years, a new understanding of pediatric brain injury and recovery has emerged. Professionals now understand that recovery may be a lifelong process for…
From the Stanford University Medical Center press release by Bruce Goldman via ScienceDaily: Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have laid bare a novel molecular mechanism responsible for the most important symptom of major depression:…
From the National Institutes of Health press release via MedicalXpress: People who are born deaf process the sense of touch differently than people who are born with normal hearing, according to research funded by the…
From the Royal Holloway, University of London press release via MedicalXpress: Have you ever found yourself paying attention to the sound of your footsteps when walking down a quiet corridor? Or perhaps you enjoy creating…
From the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center press release via ScienceDaily: Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most dreaded and debilitating illnesses one can develop. Currently, the disease afflicts 6.5 million…
From the Brown University press release via EurekAlert!: So far it has seemed an irreparable limitation of human perception that we strain to perceive things in the very rapid succession of, say, less than half…