From the University at Buffalo press release: Scientists have used magnetism to activate tiny groups of cells in the brain, inducing bodily movements that include running, rotating and losing control of the extremities — an achievement…
From the Stanford University Medical Center press release: A study by Stanford University investigators suggests that key features of autism reflect an imbalance in signaling from excitatory and inhibitory neurons in a portion of the forebrain,…
From the Cell Press press release: “Chunking” has been a concept in cognitive psychology since the mid-1950s. It is the means by which individual items or words are grouped together into larger units so that…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking…
From the SINC press release: The rhythms of brainwaves between two people taking part in a conversation begin to match each other. This is the conclusion of a study published in the magazine Scientific Reports,…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking…
From the University of Maryland School of Medicine press release: Globally, depression affects more than 300 million people annually. Nearly 800,000 die from suicide every year — it is the second-leading cause of death among people…
From the University of Tsukuba press release: You may have experienced sleepless nights when you were anxious, stressed or too excited. Such emotions are well-known to affect wakefulness and can even cause insomnia, though the underlying…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: Many cognitive processes, such as decision-making, take place within seconds or minutes. Neuroscientists have longed to capture neuron activity during such tasks, but that dream has remained elusive…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release: Different types of memories stored in the same neuron of the marine snail Aplysia can be selectively erased, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University…