Medical research

To ditch dessert, feed the brain

If the brain goes hungry, Twinkies look a lot better, a study led by researchers at Yale University and the University of Southern California has found.

Surgery

Virtual reality simulator helps teach surgery for brain cancer

A new virtual reality simulator—including sophisticated 3-D graphics and tactile feedback—provides neurosurgery trainees with valuable opportunities to practice essential skills and techniques for brain cancer surgery, ...

Autism spectrum disorders

Six apps to help autistic children learn

With reports of autism among children continuing to rise at a meteoric rate throughout the United States, it's hardly surprising that scores of apps have been developed to help these kids cope, academically and socially.

Neuroscience

Immune cells sculpt circuits in the brain

Immune cells play an unexpected role in fine-tuning the brain's neural circuits, according to research published in September, 2020 in Neuron. The immune cells that reside there, known as microglia, not only protect the brain ...

Oncology & Cancer

Influence of visual hindsight bias in mammogram reading

"Hindsight is 20/20," one often hears in the context of a tendency to evaluate past choices more clearly in light of new information. But the perfect "20/20" score, referring to a measure of visual acuity, acknowledges a ...

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