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Scientists strengthen memory by stimulating key site in brain

Ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you parked the car? New UCLA research may one day help you improve your memory.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Explorers,' who embrace the uncertainty of choices, use specific part of cortex

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. Others consider their options systematically ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Brain cells created from patients' skin cells

(Medical Xpress) -- Cambridge scientists have, for the first time, created cerebral cortex cells – those that make up the brain’s grey matter – from a small sample of human skin.  The researchers’ ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gene regulator in brain's executive hub tracked across lifespan

For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain's executive hub. Among key findings ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study shows Alzheimer's disease may spread by 'jumping' from one brain region to another

For decades, researchers have debated whether Alzheimer's disease starts independently in vulnerable brain regions at different times, or if it begins in one region and then spreads to neuroanatomically connected areas. A ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Extended synaptic development may explain our cognitive edge over other primates

Over the first few years of life, human cognition continues to develop, soaking up information and experiences from the environment and far surpassing the abilities of even our nearest primate relatives. In a study published ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Gene mutation in autism found to cause hyperconnectivity in brain's hearing center

New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) might help explain how a gene mutation found in some autistic individuals leads to difficulties in processing auditory cues and paying spatial attention to sound.

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers rewrite textbook on location of brain's speech processing center

Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain's cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received -- a place famously known as Wernicke's area ...

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Mouse brains keyed to speed

(Medical Xpress) -- It’s hard to be a mouse. You’re a social animal, but your fellows are small and scattered. You’re a snack to a bestiary of fast, eagle-eyed predators, not least the eagle. ...

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's: French scientists focus on key target

French scientists said on Tuesday that lack of a key brain protein was linked to Alzheimer's, a finding that threw up a tempting target for drugs to fight the disease.

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The influence of estrogen on female mood changes

Women are often troubled with cyclical mood changes. Studies have shown a relationship between emotional disorders associated with the menstrual cycle and changes in estrogen level. The authors reviewed related research in ...

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created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Neural balls and strikes: Where categories live in the brain

Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorize a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study offers clue as to why alcohol is addicting: Drinking releases brain endorphins

(Medical Xpress) -- Drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, according to a study led by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the brain computes 3D structures

The incredible ability of our brain to create a three-dimensional (3D) representation from an object's two-dimensional projection on the retina is something that we may take for granted, but the process is not well understood ...

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Brain size may predict risk for early Alzheimer's disease

New research suggests that, in people who don't currently have memory problems, those with smaller regions of the brain's cortex may be more likely to develop symptoms consistent with very early Alzheimer's disease. The study ...

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created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast