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Hormone clue to root growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, which will be necessary to ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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New study to test unusual hypothesis on beta brainwaves

Beta oscillations are tightly linked to Parkinson's disease and the ability to process sensory information, such as touch. Two neuroscientists have brought their collaboration to Brown University and won funding from the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Don't get math? Researchers home in on the brain's problem

Can't calculate a tip or even balance your checkbook? Take heart; maybe you can blame your brain - specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. And it could be a problem that has roots not in a failed ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Control of fear in the brain decoded

When healthy people are faced with threatening situations, they react with a suitable behavioural response and do not descend into a state of either panic or indifference, as is the case, for example, with ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Addiction a brain disorder, not just bad behavior

Addiction isn't just about willpower. It's a chronic brain disease, says a new definition aimed at helping families and their doctors better understand the challenges of treating it.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Autism blurs distinctions between brain regions

Autism blurs the molecular differences that normally distinguish different brain regions, a new study suggests. Among more than 500 genes that are normally expressed at significantly different levels in the ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Digging into our consciousness

Dr. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, is best known for his pioneering work on how the brain generates emotion and how emotion, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Sensory wiring for smells varies among individuals

If, as Shakespeare's Juliet declared, a rose by any other name smells as sweet – to you and to me and to anyone else who sniffs it – then one might assume that our odor-sensing nerve cells are all wired in the same ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Teen brains over-process rewards, suggesting root of risky behavior, mental ills

University of Pittsburgh researchers have recorded neuron activity in adolescent rat brains that could reveal the biological root of the teenage propensity to consider rewards over consequences and explain ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New microscope records firing of thousands of individual neurons in 3-D

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some disorders of the brain are obvious -- the massive death of brain cells after a stroke, the explosion in the growth of cells that marks a tumor. Other disorders, such as autism, schizophrenia ...

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created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antonio Damasio wins Honda Prize

The Honda Foundation of Japan has announced that its annual Honda Prize, one of the most important international awards for scientific achievement, will go to Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience ...

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created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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