From the National Institutes of Health press release via MedicalXpress: People who are born deaf process the sense of touch differently than people who are born with normal hearing, according… Read more »
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is among the most common, distressing, and disabling medical consequences of combat or other extremely stressful life events. The… Read more »
From the Max Planck Florida Institute press release: Despite a long-held scientific belief that much of the wiring of the brain is fixed by the time of adolescence, a new… Read more »
From the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine press release via MedicalXpress: New nerve cells formed in a select part of the brain could hold considerable sway over how much… Read more »
From the American Pain Society press release via Newswise: Training the brain to reduce pain could be a promising approach for treating phantom limb pain and complex regional pain syndrome,… Read more »
From the SUNY Buffalo press release: Chronic exposure to cocaine reduces the expression of a protein known to regulate brain plasticity, according to new, in vivo research on the molecular… Read more »
From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press release via EurekAlert!: A team led by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) publishes research today indicating a striking association between genes… Read more »
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release: Practices like physical exercise, certain forms of psychological counseling and meditation can all change brains for the better, and these changes can be… Read more »
From the Brown University press release: No matter what novel objects we come to behold, our brains effortlessly take us from an initial “What’s that?” to “Oh, that old thing”… Read more »
From the UC Berkeley press release: Opening the door to the development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices to help people with spinal cord injuries, amputations and other impairments, neuroscientists at the… Read more »
