From the Brown University press release: Life shrouds most choices in mystery. Some people inch toward a comfortable enough spot and stick close to that rewarding status quo. Out to dinner, they order the usual.…
From the Elsevier press release: Mark Twain said, “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” Many smokers would agree that it’s difficult to…
From the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) press release via EurekAlert!: A team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a web application to test the visual intelligence of Facebook…
From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem press release via AlphaGalileo: Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have tapped onto the visual cortex of the congenitally blind by using sensory substitution devices (SSDs), enabling the blind…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: There are two key cell types in the brain that are central to the regulation of feeding behaviors, agouti-related peptide (AgRP)-expressing neurons and proopiomelancortin (POMC)-expressing neurons. Previous…
From the Ruhr-Universität Bochum press release via ScienceDaily: Each part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain – we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The…
From the University of Michigan press release: It can take a little while for our hearing to bounce back after listening to our iPods too loud or attending a raucous concert. But new research at…
From the American Physiological Society press release via Newswise: Researchers have long known that specific parts of the brain activate when people view particular images. For example, a region called the fusiform face area turns…
From the McGill University press release: When you are about to collide into something and manage to swerve away just in the nick of time, what exactly is happening in your brain? A new study…
From the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa press release: Treatments for Parkinson’s disease, estimated to affect 1 million Americans, have yet to prove effective in slowing the progression of the debilitating disease. However, University of…