Neuroscience
Imagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain
As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality.
Nov 19, 2014
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News tagged with brain research
Neuroscience
Coming soon: A brain implant to restore memory
In the next few months, highly secretive US military researchers say they will unveil new advances toward developing a brain implant that could one day restore a wounded soldier's memory.
May 1, 2014
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Neuroscience
Brain implants may help the injured who suffer memory loss
(Medical Xpress)—Focusing on ways to treat people who have suffered memory loss through head trauma, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to examine possibilities for recovery by means of brain implants. ...
Neuroscience
A blueprint for restoring touch with a prosthetic hand
New research at the University of Chicago is laying the groundwork for touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that one day could convey real-time sensory information to amputees via a direct interface with the brain.
Oct 14, 2013
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Genetics
Research team identifies gene mutation that causes loss of pain perception
(Medical Xpress)—A large team of European researchers has identified a gene mutation that is responsible for causing a condition that leads to an inability to experience pain in humans. In their paper published in Nature ...
Neuroscience
Researchers reveal how the brain remains focused on long-term goals
As anyone who has traveled with young children knows, maintaining focus on distant goals can be a challenge. A new study from MIT suggests how the brain achieves this task, and indicates that the neurotransmitter dopamine ...
Aug 4, 2013
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New drug reverses loss of brain connections in Alzheimer's disease
The first experimental drug to boost brain synapses lost in Alzheimer's disease has been developed by researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. The drug, called NitroMemantine, combines two FDA-approved medicines ...
Jun 17, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Is this peptide a key to happiness?
(Medical Xpress)—What makes us happy? Family? Money? Love? How about a peptide? The neurochemical changes underlying human emotions and social behavior are largely unknown. Now though, for the first time in humans, scientists ...
Mar 7, 2013
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Neuroscience
Study: Infants process faces long before they recognize other objects
(Medical Xpress)—Using brain-monitoring technology, Stanford psychology researchers have discovered that infant brains respond to faces in much the same way as adult brains do, even while the rest of their visual system ...
Dec 11, 2012
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Neuroscience
Autistic adults have unreliable neural responses, study finds
Autism is a disorder well known for its complex changes in behavior—including repeating actions over and over and having difficulty with social interactions and language. Current approaches to understanding what causes ...
Sep 19, 2012
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