News tagged with nature reviews neuroscience
Review provides new insights into the causes of anorexia
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 21, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
New imaging technology provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of patients with anorexia nervosa (commonly known as anorexia) that may contribute to the puzzling symptoms found in people with the eating ...
8 hours -- or else
Mar 27, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (8) |
2
Americans are sleeping less than ever, according to a new National Sleep Foundation poll. Some people are losing sleep because of the economy. Some are staying up too late and getting up too early. Some have disorders such ...
Search results for nature reviews neuroscience
Actinide research published in Reviews of Modern Physics
Feb 11, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (10) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Livermore researcher who teamed with a United Kingdom collaborator has published an article in Reviews of Modern Physics that refines decades of actinide science and may just become the preeminent research ...
Dreams may have an important physiological function
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 12, 2009 |
3.9 / 5 (27) |
12
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dreams have long been assumed to have psychological functions such as consolidating emotional memories and processing experiences or problems, but according to a Harvard psychiatrist and sleep ...
TripAdvisor warns of hotels posting fake reviews
Jul 16, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- The hotel review may sound too good - citing obscure details like the type of faucets - or perhaps one stands out as the only negative rating of an otherwise popular location.
Scientists find that individuals in vegetative states can learn
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 20, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (11) |
3
Scientists have found that some individuals in the vegetative and minimally conscious states, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. ...
Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 06, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (2) |
0
(AP) -- Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people.
Calcium channels optimize learning
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 18, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (10) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland, have shown how calcium channels in the brain have a positive impact on learning. Their results have been ...
Researchers find new piece in Alzheimer's puzzle
Feb 25, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
2
Yale researchers have filled in a missing gap on the molecular road map of Alzheimer's disease. In the Feb. 26 issue of the journal Nature, the Yale team reports that cellular prion proteins trigger the process by which ...
Rain or Shine? Computer Models How Brain Cells Reach a Decision
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2009 |
3.3 / 5 (4) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities-as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting ...
The brain's reserve cells can be activated after stroke
Feb 23, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (6) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have found a way of activating the neuronal reserves in the brains of mice by switching off the signal that inhibits the formation of new ...
Hallucinations in the flash of an eye
Sep 04, 2008 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
0
Dominic H. ffytche at the Institute of Psychiatry in London reviews what we do know and moves the field forward, by introducing a new experimental approach to studying hallucinations as they occur.
List of search results for nature reviews neuroscience
