News tagged with neuroscientists
Scientists decode memory-forming brain cell conversations
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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The conversations neurons have as they form and recall memories have been decoded by Medical College of Georgia scientists.
Neuroscience in the driving seat
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 11, 2009 |
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It emerged today that more drivers are using hand-held mobile phones than two years ago, despite the introduction of tougher penalties. The Transport Research Laboratory is worried because phone-using drivers ...
Music and speech based on human biology (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.
In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from a mental grocery list is not a sign of mental decline; in fact, it's natural.
Findings could speed the development of drugs for Parkinson's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Australian scientists have significantly advanced our understanding of dopamine release from nerve cells, findings that should speed the development of more effective drugs for treating Parkinson's Disease.
Back to (brain) basics
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In his own words, MIT neuroscientist Mark Bear admits he did not "wake up one day and say 'Hey, I'm going to cure autism.'" But, after decades of painstaking basic research on how the brain ...
Phantom limbs learn impossible tricks
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that body images can be formed independently of external sensory inputs, and that the phantom limbs of amputees can be trained to carry out tasks that would be impossible ...
Neuroscientist's discovery of new uses for old drug leads to patents, innovation award
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2009 |
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University of South Florida neuroscientist R. Douglas Shytle's discovery of successful new clinical uses for mecamylamine, a drug once used to treat hypertension, has led to several issued patents on mecamylamine ...
Scientists seek to manage dopamine's good and bad sides
Oct 07, 2009 |
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The good, the bad and the ugly: That's a quick summary of the effects of dopamine, a natural brain chemical that's linked to pleasure, addiction and disease.
Why one way of learning is better than another
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) of McGill University reveals that different patterns of training and learning lead to different types of memory formation. The significance of ...
Out of darkness, sight: How the brain learns to see
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cases of restored vision after a lifetime of blindness, though exceedingly rare, provide a unique opportunity to address several fundamental questions regarding brain function. After being ...
Scary music is scarier with your eyes shut
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 15, 2009 |
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The power of the imagination is well-known: it's no surprise that scary music is scarier with your eyes closed. But now neuroscientist and psychiatrist Prof. Talma Hendler of Tel Aviv University's Functional Brain Center ...
How Do We Perceive Art?
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at the University of Leicester are to work with a renowned international artist in order to gain new insights into perception.
Brain-fitness companies applying neuroscience to make safer drivers
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Young drivers cause accidents mainly through carelessness, distraction and inexperience. Older drivers face a challenge: brains that work at slower processing speeds -- a critical disadvantage when navigating the unpredictable ...
Perceiving touch and your self outside of your body
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 05, 2009 |
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When you feel you are being touched, usually someone or something is physically touching you and you perceive that your "self" is located in the same place as your body. In new research published in the open-access, peer-reviewed ...
