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Stomach hormone may help slow Parkinson’s progression
Thaindian News —
Authority: 726
Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a hormone produced in the stomach that can help boost resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson’s disease.Parkinson’s disease is caused by a degeneration of dopamine neurons in an area of the midbrain known as the substantia ...1 day ago -
Mind of an actor
The Art of Science —
Authority: 126
Just a heads up I will not be posting over Thanksgiving weekend. For now, a cool article from the BBC about the Neuroscience of an actor’s mind. Excerpt: For an actor, the performance conditions weren’t exactly ideal: flat on her back in a large machine, under strict instructions to lie as still as possible, ...1 day ago -
Dance to the Beat: Animals & Music – Show #290
Animal Talk Naturally Online Radio Show —
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Click here to buy Dance to the Beat: Animals MusicThis time on Animal Talk Naturally we ask, do animals actually dance in rhythm to the music like humans? Or does it all just appear so because we love to equate their behavior to ours? Find out as we speak with Irena Schulz of Bird Lovers Only Rescue once again ...1 week ago -
The Future of Psychiatry: 5 Reasons for Optimism
Beyond Blue —
Authority: 521
After reading the last chapter of "Demystifying Psychiatry," I felt so much better about where psychiatry might be when my kids are my age. Perhaps, if either is ever diagnosed with a mental illnesses, there will be more targeted treatments, and more optimism for a speedy recovery. The following excerpts of ...1 week ago -
Novel Approaches to Studying Basal Ganglia and Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders by XIAO-HONG LU
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Authority: 164
International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 89: Novel Approaches to Studying Basal Ganglia and Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders By XIAO-HONG LU | Publisher: Academic Press 2009-12-15 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0123748941 | PDF | Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing ...1 week ago -
Using light to control single brain cells (and thanks to a gene from algae)
Sun and Shield —
Authority: 126
Wired has posted an amazing report on how it is possible to control a single neuron in a mouse brain, by zapping it with light. The reason this works is because researchers have also inserted a gene for light sensitivity into the mouse, so the mouse is a mouse-algal hybrid. (Not really -- its a mouse with one algal ...1 week ago -
The Rising Rates of Autism in the Age of Modern Medicine
Left Brain/Right Brain —
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Most people who are not on a mission to prove inoculations are the sole cause of autism would very easily concede that a large portion of the increased diagnostic rates of Autism Spectrum Conditions is due to increased recognition of the conditions, a broadening of the basic definition of “autism”, and better ...1 week ago -
Fruit Fly Pheromones
Sound Medicine —
Authority: 127
Lets take a break from human medicine and talk about bugs for a few minutes.Were talking fruit flies. More precisely, were interested in what female fruit flies do after theyre done mating.Theres a serious reason were talking about this: this pheromone research could lead to new ways of controlling insect populations, ...1 week ago -
How some aromas are bound up in our memories
Thaindian News —
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Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Some aromas get etched into our memories since childhood, and now researchers at Weizmann Institute have found the scientific basis of this connection.According to graduate student Yaara Yeshurun, along with Profs. Noam Sobel and Yadin Dudai of the Institute’s Neurobiology Department, the ...2 weeks ago -
Brainy sofa
The Art of Science —
Authority: 126
From Wired : It’s either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of designers obsessed with neuroscience. Either way, the “Brainwave Sofa” is clearly a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture. The couch’s lumpy, bumpy shape is a three-dimensional version of a brain scan, ...2 weeks ago -
Essays on Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration, Vol. 87 by Stefano Geuna
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Essays on Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration (International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 87) | Academic Press; 1 edition (September 10, 2009) | English | 0123750849 | 600 pages | PDF | 39.89 MB The serial International Review of Neurobiology examines recent advances in neuroscience with an emphasis on ...3 weeks ago -
The ‘Connectivity’ Link between Autism and Dyslexia
Left Brain/Right Brain —
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by Emily L. Williams In an article currently in press in The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , University of Louisville researcher, Dr. Manuel Casanova, provides tantalizing evidence supporting his theory of altered neural connectivity in dyslexia. Casanova proposes that the underlying deficits ...3 weeks ago -
Wired - Religion: Biological Accident, Adaptation — or Both
Integral Options Cafe —
Authority: 441
My guess is that religious thought is a by-product of our need to understand the world, which begins with our need to understand each other (as this article suggests). Historically, what we cannot explain concretely we tend to create supernatural explanations for - superstitions, rituals, gods. Religion: Biological ...3 weeks ago -
Mindful Monday: A Note to the Severely Depressed--Dont Try So Hard
Beyond Blue —
Authority: 521
The same tools that work for mild and moderate depression dont work for severe depression. Heres why3 weeks ago -
Bad driving has a genetic component
The Knight Shift —
Authority: 140
Have a horrible driving record? It might be in your DNA. Heres what scientists at the University of California at Irvine have found...People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it - and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results. ...4 weeks ago -
The Neurobiology of the Zombie
Teresa Wilde's Demon of the Week Blog —
Authority: 119
No, I’m not qualified to write anything about the neurobiology of zombies (or even my own). It’s from a Harvard Psychatrist. Check out the article from io9 .4 weeks ago

