A new study led by the University of California, Irvine, has revealed a potential shift in our basic knowledge of the origins of birth defects, which affect about 3% of babies born in the United States each year. The findings ...
Mar 22, 2024
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How does the brain respond to sentence structure as we speak and listen? In a neuroimaging study published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and Radboud University in Nijmegen ...
Mar 7, 2024
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A new case report appearing in Heart Rhythm Case Reports, details the commotio cordis event experienced by a Romanian basketball player that resulted in cardiac arrest. The case is unique because it is validated and documented ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Every day, we store memories, some of which we are able to recall later. But while we do so, do we keep on storing? Yes, because we cannot afford to stop memory formation while we are retrieving prior ones. Imagine, for instance, ...
Oct 10, 2023
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When struggling to conceive, every second that ticks by feels precious. That makes it easy to get discouraged: 65 percent of those who seek fertility care eventually discontinue treatment, the majority due to stress. That's ...
Oct 7, 2022
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After more than a century of study, the significance of brain waves—the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of groups of brain cells—is still not fully known. An especially underappreciated aspect of the phenomenon ...
Jan 31, 2022
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A reliable sense of space is essential for daily life and memory formation. Removing sugar coated proteins around neurons in the brains' internal gps makes the mental map of space unstable, shows a study published in the ...
Jan 19, 2021
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The precise timing of a bird's complex song is driven in part by the often-ignored "wires" connecting neurons in the bird's brain, according to a new study. A team of researchers from Penn State and New York University has ...
Oct 15, 2020
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In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, University of Michigan researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control ...
Mar 4, 2020
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After decades of failing to develop an effective vaccine against HIV, the federal government has committed $129 million to a new effort led by Scripps Research.
Jul 11, 2019
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