Neuroscience

Research yielding insights into brain's signaling network

Researchers have taken an important step toward deciphering the brain's complex neuroelectric communication system that could underlie sleep disorders and conditions such as Alzheimer's, epilepsy and schizophrenia.

Neuroscience

Reading can improve your mental flexibility

Experiments conducted by the University of Liverpool's Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS) have found that literary reading could help increase mental flexibility.

Neuroscience

New insights into link between taste and behavior

Evolutionary conserved brainstem circuits are the first relay for gustatory information in the vertebrate brain. While the brainstem circuits act as our life support system and they mediate vital taste related behaviors, ...

Neuroscience

Assessing traumatic brain injuries

UConn researchers are working with college athletes to test a new device that can quickly assess concussions and other traumatic brain injuries.

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