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Neuroscientists boost memory using genetics and a new memory-enhancing drug

When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reported in a recent article in the journal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nerve cells key to making sense of our senses

The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cerebellar neurons needed to navigate in the dark

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study by scientists in France has revealed that the cerebellum region of the brain plays an important role in the ability to navigate when visual cues are absent, and is the first ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Stereotypes and status symbols impact if a face is viewed as black or white

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Tufts University, Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine has found that the perception of race can be altered by cues to social status as ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

To ditch dessert, feed the brain

If the brain goes hungry, Twinkies look a lot better, a study led by researchers at Yale University and the University of Southern California has found.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In-shell pistachios: The original 'slow food?'

Two studies published in the current on-line issue of the journal Appetite indicate that consuming in-shell pistachios is a weight-wise approach to healthy snacking, offering unique mindful eating benefits to help curb c ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists trick the brain into Barbie-doll size

(Medical Xpress) -- Imagine shrinking to the size of a doll in your sleep. When you wake up, will you perceive yourself as tiny or the world as being populated by giants? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

'Neurologger' reads bird brains in flight

Using a "neurologger" specially designed to record the brain activity of pigeons in flight, researchers reporting online on June 25th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have gained new insight into what goes t ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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