In the brain, an earlier sign of autism
In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them. Although the researchers are careful to say that the study, reported online ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Researchers shed light on how children learn to speak
Researchers have discovered that children under the age of two control speech using a different strategy than previously thought.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Toddlers don't listen to their own voice like adults do
When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers don't respond to their own voice in quite the same way, according ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists find greater complexity in how we perceive motion
How we perceive motion is a significantly more complex process than previously thought, researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science, Stanford University and the University of Washington have found. Their ...
Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Dreaming takes the sting out of painful memories: study
They say time heals all wounds, and new research from the University of California, Berkeley, indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help.
Medical research
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Brain study explores what makes colors and numbers collide
Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers reporting their findings online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Nov ...
Neuroscience
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Worms reveal secrets of wound-healing response
The lowly and simple roundworm may be the ideal laboratory model to learn more about the complex processes involved in repairing wounds and could eventually allow scientists to improve the body's response to healing skin ...
Medical research
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Human skin begins tanning in seconds, and here's how
We all know that human skin tans after days spent in the sun. That relatively slow process has known links to ultraviolet (and specifically UVB) exposure, which leads to tanning only after it damages the DNA of skin cells. ...
Cancer
Nov 03, 2011 |
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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 |
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Scientists describe mechanism for rare muscle disease
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem describe in C. elegans the process leading to a rare form of Emery-Dreifuss ...
Medical research
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists record novel responses to faces from single neurons in humans
Responding to faces is a critical tool for social interactions between humans. Without the ability to read faces and their expressions, it would be hard to tell friends from strangers upon first glance, let ...
Neuroscience
Sep 29, 2011 |
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What causes MRI vertigo? Machine's magnetic field pushes fluid in the inner ear's balance organ
A team of researchers says it has discovered why so many people undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially in newer high-strength machines, get vertigo, or the dizzy sensation of free-falling, while inside or ...
Medical research
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Infants trained to concentrate show added benefits
Although parents may have a hard time believing it, even infants can be trained to improve their concentration skills. What's more, training babies in this way leads to improvements on other, unrelated tasks.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Babies are specially attuned to our voices and emotions
Young babies' brains are already specially attuned to the sounds of human voices and emotions, according to a report published online on June 30 in Current Biology.
Neuroscience
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Need a nap? Find yourself a hammock
For grownups, drifting off for an afternoon snooze is often easier said than done. But many of us have probably experienced just how simple it can be to catch those zzz's in a gently rocking hammock. By examining brain waves ...
Medical research
Jun 20, 2011 |
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