From the SUNY Buffalo press release via Newswise: Animals that are socially isolated for prolonged periods make less myelin in the region of the brain responsible for complex emotional and cognitive behavior, researchers at the…
From the Stony Brook press release via Newswise: Newly generated, or newborn neurons in the adult hippocampus are critical for memory retrieval, according to a study led by Stony Brook University researchers to be published…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Areas of the brain in blind people can learn to process visual input through the use of sound, even after years or perhaps even lifelong blindness, according…
From the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School have for the first time identified the mechanism that protects us from developing uncontrollable fear.…
From the Dartmouth College press release via EurekAlert!: Most people equate “gray matter” with the brain and its higher functions, such as sensation and perception, but this is only one part of the anatomical puzzle…
From the Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (DZNE) press release via EurekAlert!: Every activity in the brain involves the transfer of signals between neurons. Frequently, as many as one thousand signals rain…
From the Yale University press release by Bill Hathaway via MedicalXpress: By administering a simple behavioral test, Yale researchers were able to predict which mice would later exhibit alcoholism-related behaviors such as the inability to…
From the Georgia State University press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at Georgia State University have found that the ability to hear is lessened when, as a result of injury, a region of the brain responsible…
From the American Heart Association press release via ScienceDaily: Group yoga can improve balance in stroke survivors who no longer receive rehabilitative care, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. In…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Synapses are modified through learning. Up until now, scientists believed that a particular form of synaptic plasticity in the brain’s hippocampus was responsible for learning spatial relations. This was based…