When observing an old person picking up a box and a young person picking up a comparable box, it is easy to distinguish the difference in strength, flexibility and confidence of the two people. The brain region responsible ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBNeuro) and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) described a mechanism, the increase of proteinaceous synthesis, which ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Women in their 70s and 80s who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution experienced greater declines in memory and more Alzheimer's-like brain atrophy than their counterparts who breathed cleaner air, according to USC ...
Nov 20, 2019
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People with prosopagnosia, or "face blindness," have trouble recognizing faces—even those of close friends and family members. It often causes serious social problems, although some people can compensate by using clothing ...
Nov 19, 2019
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In an article in Brain, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and elsewhere report which brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to perform well in a speech entrainment ...
Nov 13, 2019
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Researchers at the Aston Neuroscience Institute (ANI), Aston University, in Birmingham, UK have found differences in the brainwaves of autistic teenagers responsible for their visual perception, which could assist in earlier ...
Nov 5, 2019
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In a bid to determine factors linked to the most debilitating forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have identified three so-called "complement system" genes that appear to play a role ...
Oct 31, 2019
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Researchers have discovered an immune control switch that could protect the brains of premature babies, who often suffer brain injuries when their immune response goes into overdrive.
Oct 30, 2019
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Manchester researchers have contributed towards the discovery of a genetic brain disease which can cause paraplegia and epilepsy in sufferers.
Oct 30, 2019
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A QIMR Berghofer study has discovered how the medications given to people with Parkinson's disease cause some patients to develop addictive behaviours such as problem gambling, binge eating, hypersexuality and excessive shopping.
Oct 29, 2019
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