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Seeing colors in music, tasting flavors in shapes may happen in life's early months

Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman sees a deep forest green whenever he plays a B-flat on his Stradivarius' G string. The A on the E string is red.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Team isolates nerve cells involved in storing long term memory and gene proteins associated with them

(Medical Xpress) -- A research team in Taiwan has succeeded in isolating two nerve cells in fruit fly brains that are believed to be the major players in allowing for the formation of long term memories. Furthermore, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Deciding to go left or right: Researchers use device to determine that lower animals can navigate too

For decades, scientists have associated binary decision making — opting to go left or right — with higher-ranking animals, including humans. A team of Harvard researchers, however, is rewriting that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New target for Alzheimer's drugs

(Medical Xpress) -- Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have identified a new link between a protein called beta-arrestin and short-term memory that could open new doors for the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop gene therapy to boost brain repair for demyelinating diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- Our bodies are full of tiny superheroes—antibodies that fight foreign invaders, cells that regenerate, and structures that ensure our systems run smoothly. One such structure is myelin—a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify most lethal known species of prion protein

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a single prion protein that causes neuronal death similar to that seen in "mad cow" disease, but is at least 10 times more ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Neuroscientists link brain-wave pattern to energy consumption

Different brain states produce different waves of electrical activity, with the alert brain, relaxed brain and sleeping brain producing easily distinguishable electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns. These patterns ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | 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

Unusual alliances enable movement

Some unusual alliances are necessary for you to wiggle your fingers, researchers report.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flipping a light switch in the cell: Quantum dots used for targeted neural activation

By harnessing quantum dots—tiny light-emitting semiconductor particles a few billionths of a meter across—researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new and vastly more targeted ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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