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Woman can literally feel the noise

(Medical Xpress) -- A case of a 36-year-old woman who began to literally 'feel' noise about a year and a half after suffering a stroke sparked a new research project by neuroscientist Tony Ro from the City ...

Neuroscience created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Research indicates certain probiotics may influence brain functioning

(Medical Xpress) -- It was just last year that a certain company selling a special probiotic enhanced yogurt was ordered by a U.S. court to stop suggesting in its advertisements that it's product had health ...

Neuroscience created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Exercise triggers beneficial cellular recycling: study

Everyone knows exercise is good for you. We’re told time spent on the treadmill can reduce our risk of diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disorders. But exactly how exercise provides this protection ...

Medical research created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research shows brain more flexible, trainable than previously thought

Opening the door to the development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices to help people with spinal cord injuries, amputations and other impairments, neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Neuroscience created Mar 04, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Revealed: Secret of HIV's natural born killers

Scientists on Sunday said they had found a key piece in the puzzle as to why a tiny minority of individuals infected with HIV have a natural ability to fight off the deadly AIDS virus.

HIV & AIDS created Jun 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Glucose deprivation activates feedback loop that kills cancer cells: study

Compared to normal cells, cancer cells have a prodigious appetite for glucose, the result of a shift in cell metabolism known as aerobic glycolysis or the "Warburg effect." Researchers focusing on this effect as a possible ...

Cancer created Jun 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Penis size does matter to women, researchers say in PNAS study (w/ Video)

The eternal question of whether penis size matters to women has been probed by a team of international scientists who reported on Monday that yes, ladies do find larger men more attractive.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (22) | comments 23

How the brain makes memories: Rhythmically!

The brain learns through changes in the strength of its synapses -- the connections between neurons -- in response to stimuli.

Neuroscience created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Mystery of resistance to malaria solved in new study

(Medical Xpress) -- Malaria is a disease caused by parasites passed to humans via the bites of infected mosquitoes. Globally, the disease causes over a million deaths every year, and is especially rife in ...

Medical research created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Scientists identify an innate function of vitamin E

It's rubbed on the skin to reduce signs of aging and consumed by athletes to improve endurance but scientists now have the first evidence of one of vitamin E's normal body functions.

Medical research created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells

Our fond or fearful memories — that first kiss or a bump in the night — leave memory traces that we may conjure up in the remembrance of things past, complete with time, place and all the sensations ...

Neuroscience created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Blue Brain Project accurately predicts connections between neurons

One of the greatest challenges in neuroscience is to identify the map of synaptic connections between neurons. Called the "connectome," it is the holy grail that will explain how information flows in the ...

Neuroscience created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Body clocks of depressed people altered at cell level, researchers show

Every cell in our bodies runs on a 24-hour clock, tuned to the night-day, light-dark cycles that have ruled us since the dawn of humanity. The brain acts as timekeeper, keeping the cellular clock in sync ...

Medical research created May 13, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (19) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

3-D movie shows, for the first time, what happens in the brain as it loses consciousness

For the first time researchers have been able to watch what happens to the brain as it loses consciousness. Using sophisticated imaging equipment they have constructed a 3-D movie of the brain as it changes ...

Neuroscience created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Cancer 'smart bomb' created from a crocus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the UK have figured out a way to turn chemicals found in the crocus flower which blooms throughout the UK into a ‘smart bomb’ of sorts when it comes to a new cancer ...

Cancer created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report