From the Boston University School of Medicine press release: Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated in experimental models that blocking the Sigma-1 receptor, a cellular protein, reduced binge eating and caused…
From the University of Bristol press release via MedicalXpress: Four generations of a single family have been found to possess an abnormality within a specific brain region which appears to affect their ability to recall…
From the Concordia University press release via EurekAlert!: Thanks to modern science, we know that love lives in the brain, not in the heart. But where in the brain is it – and is it…
From the MIT, CSAIL press release via EurekAlert!: The human brain can recognize thousands of different objects, but neuroscientists have long grappled with how the brain organizes object representation; in other words, how the brain…
From the Loyola University Health System press release via MedicalXpress: A “brain pacemaker” called deep brain stimulation (DBS) remains an effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease for at least three years, according to a study in…
From the University of Iowa press release via Newswise: Researchers at the University of Iowa, together with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and New York University, have discovered how a part of the…
From the USC press release by Suzanne Wu via ScienceDaily: Pathological rage can be blocked in mice, researchers have found, suggesting potential new treatments for severe aggression, a widespread trait characterized by sudden violence, explosive…
From the CORDIS press release via MedicalXpress: Fear conditioning using sound and taste aversion, as applied to mice, have revealed interesting information on the basis of memory allocation. European ‘Cellular mechanisms underlying formation of the…
From the University of Missouri press release: Human brains process large and small numbers of objects using two different mechanisms, but infants have not yet developed the ability to make those two processes work together,…
From the Wellcome Trust press release via MedicalXpress: Software programmed to recognise patterns of activity in the brain could help doctors diagnose mental illnesses more accurately in the future, according to research funded by the…