News tagged with biological activity

Conscious perception is a matter of global neural networks

(Medical Xpress) -- Consciousness is a selective process that allows only a part of the sensory input to reach awareness. But up to today it has yet to be clarified which areas of the brain are responsible ...

Neuroscience Jun 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0 |

Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers manipulate neurons in worms' brains, take control of their behavior

In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, Harvard scientists have crossed a major threshold. Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers have been able to take over an animal's ...

Neuroscience Sep 24, 2012 | 5 / 5 (8) | 1 |

Scientists reveal drinking champagne could improve memory

(Medical Xpress)—New research shows that drinking one to three glasses of champagne a week may counteract the memory loss associated with ageing, and could help delay the onset of degenerative brain disorders, ...

Health May 08, 2013 | 4.4 / 5 (9) | 5 |

The brain science behind economics

Neuroscience might seem to have little to do with economics, but over the last decade researchers have begun combining these disparate fields, mining the latest advances in brain imaging and genetics to get a better understanding ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Mar 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (7) | 0

Fatty foods really are mood enhancers

A new study published in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation shows just why it is that people tend to turn to fatty foods in order to boost their emotional state and reduce feelings of sadness. Be it ...

Medical research Jul 27, 2011 | 3.9 / 5 (8) | 11 |

Sense of justice built into the brain

A new study from the Karolinska Institute and Stockholm School of Economics shows that the brain has built-in mechanisms that trigger an automatic reaction to someone who refuses to share. In the study publishing next week ...

Neuroscience May 03, 2011 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 17 |

Brain imaging study: A step toward true 'dream reading'

When people dream that they are performing a particular action, a portion of the brain involved in the planning and execution of movement lights up with activity. The finding, made by scanning the brains of ...

Neuroscience Oct 27, 2011 | 5 / 5 (6) | 9 |

Researchers find new drug target for lung cancer

Drugs targeting an enzyme involved in inflammation might offer a new avenue for treating certain lung cancers, according to a new study by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Cancer Feb 16, 2012 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Biologists announce unique spinal nerve cell activity discovery

Scientists from the University of Leicester have hit upon unique forms of spinal nerve activity that shape output of nerve cell networks controlling motor behaviours.

Neuroscience Nov 08, 2012 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Borderline personality disorder: The "perfect storm" of emotion dysregulation

Originally, the label "borderline personality disorder" was applied to patients who were thought to represent a middle ground between patients with neurotic and psychotic disorders. Increasingly, though, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Jan 15, 2013 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

Methylome modifications offer new measure of our 'biological' age

Women live longer than men. Individuals can appear or feel years younger – or older – than their chronological age. Diseases can affect our aging process. When it comes to biology, our clocks clearly tick differently.

Medical research Nov 21, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

'Other-race effect': Clues to why 'they' all look alike

Northwestern University researchers have provided new biological evidence suggesting that the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one's own race than when memorizing a face from another race.

Psychology & Psychiatry Jun 30, 2011 | 3.7 / 5 (6) | 12 |

Attention and awareness uncoupled in brain imaging experiments

In everyday life, attention and awareness appear tightly interwoven. Attending to the scissors on the right side of your desk, you become aware of their attributes, for example the red handles. Vice versa, ...

Neuroscience Nov 10, 2011 | 4 / 5 (5) | 2 |

With mind-reading speller, free-for-all conversations that are silent and still

Researchers have come up with a device that may enable people who are completely unable to speak or move at all to nevertheless manage unscripted back-and-forth conversation. The key to such silent and still ...

Neuroscience Jun 28, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

If you are impulsive, take modafinil and count to 10

Poor impulse control contributes to one's inability to control the consumption of rewarding substances, like food, alcohol, and other drugs. This can lead to the development of addiction. FDA-approved medications for alcoholism, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 01, 2013 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1 |

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