From the University of Pennsylvania press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of electrical signals. Recent improvements in brain recording…
From the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive skills such as learning and memory diminish with age in everyone, and the drop-off is steepest in Alzheimer’s disease.…
From the Linköping University press release via ScienceDaily: The inexorable spread of Alzheimer’s disease through the brain leaves dead neurons and forgotten thoughts in its wake. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden are the first…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have come up with a device that may enable people who are completely unable to speak or move at all to nevertheless manage unscripted back-and-forth conversation.…
From the McGill University press release: A new study shows significant differences in brain development in high-risk infants who develop autism starting as early as age 6 months. The findings published in the American Journal…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: Smoking, head injury, pesticide exposure, farming and less education may be risk factors for a rare sleep disorder that causes people to kick or punch…
From the University of Southern California – Health Sciences press release via ScienceDaily: You’re minding your own business when a food craving suddenly hits, and if you just saw an image of a cupcake, or…
From the BioMed Central press release via EurekAlert!: The number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has recently increased to one in 100. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC…
From the Endocrine Society press release via Newswise: Prenatal exposure to the environmental contaminants polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, causes long-term changes to the developing brain that have adverse effects on reproductive function later in life,…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: Magnetic fields generated by microscopic devices implanted into the brain may be able to modulate brain-cell activity and reduce symptoms of several neurological disorders. Micromagnetic stimulation appears to…