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• in Lifestyle
  Mind Quiz Stimulation
  Our brains are complex organs that we can strengthen with mental exercise or a mind quiz.
  by nathy007 / on Oct 5, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  The Virtual Communication Trap and the Way Out
  It’s twice as hard for male singles working in the IT to find a partner. A university spin-off helps – with software.
  by globalemotion / on Apr 26, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “neuroscience”

 

• Maps of the Mind and the World

  
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  Blue cats, chartreuse kittens and multi-hued Haitian taxis color synesthete Patricia Lynne Duffys world. read more
  7 hours ago

• The Brains Quick Interceptions Help You Navigate The World

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  When you are about to collide into something and manage to swerve away just in the nick of time, what exactly is happening in your brain? A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University shows how the brain processes visual information to figure out when something is ...
  8 hours ago

• Why The Middle Finger Has Such A Slow Connection

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  Each part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain - we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The functional significance of these maps is largely unclear. What effects they can have is now shown by RUB neuroscientists through reaction time measurements combined with learning experiments and ...
  9 hours ago

• Former Welders Suffer Increased Clumsiness

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  Welders who are exposed to manganese from welding fumes, risk developing increased clumsiness - and the result may remain decades after exposure has ceased. This is the finding of a study at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, of former shipyard workers. It is estimated that 35,000 people in Sweden work full-time ...
  1 day ago

• Images Of Nerve Cells In The Brain Of A Living Mouse

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  To explore the most intricate structures of the brain in order to decipher how it functions - Stefan Hells team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen has made a significant step closer to this goal. Using the STED microscopy developed by Hell, the scientists have, for the ...
  1 day ago

• Swedish Twin Study Finds Cognitive Problems Common Among Non-Demented Elderly

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  Both subjective and objective cognitive impairment are highly common among non-demented elderly Swedes, with an overall prevalence of 39 percent and 25 percent respectively, according to a nationwide twin study by researchers at the Aging Research Center of Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The study confirms higher ...
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• Working Memory And The Brain

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  Researchers have long known that specific parts of the brain activate when people view particular images. For example, a region called the fusiform face area turns on when the eyes glance at faces, and another region called the parahippocampal place area does the same when a person looks at scenes or buildings. ...
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• Researchers Find Additional Benefits Of Cord Blood Cells In Mice Modeling ALS

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  Repeated, low-dose injections of mononuclear cells derived from human umbilical cord blood (MNC hUCB, tradename: U-CORD-CELL™) have been found effective in protecting motor neuron cells, delaying disease progression and increasing lifespan for mice modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, also referred to as ...
  2 days ago

• New Procedure Repairs Severed Nerves In Minutes, Restoring Limb Use In Days Or Weeks

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  American scientists believe a new procedure to repair severed nerves could result in patients recovering in days or weeks, rather than months or years. The team used a cellular mechanism similar to that used by many invertebrates to repair damage to nerve axons. Their results are published in the Journal of ...
  2 days ago

• Cracks in the Plaques: Mysteries of Alzheimers Slowly Yielding to New Research

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 135
  This has been a big week in Alzheimers news as scientists put together a clearer picture than ever before of how the disease affects the brain. Three recently published studies have detected the disease with new technologies, hinted at its prevalence, and described at last how it makes its lethal progress through the ...
  3 days ago

• Ethical Questions Surround ‘Electrical Thinking Cap’ that Improves Mental Functions

  
  Observations — Authority: 113
  Child using transcranial direct current stimulation What if a drug could improve learning and cognition and had no untoward medical consequences? Wouldn’t it be justified to make it widely available? A group of scientists concluded three years ago that it would be. No such drug exists, but the question arises ...
  3 days ago

• Gender Specific Behavior Traced To Hormone-Controlled Genes In The Brain

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 689
  Men and women may be equals, but they often behave differently when it comes to sex and parenting. Now a study of the differences between the brains of male and female mice in the Cell Press journal Cell provides insight into how our own brains might be programmed for these stereotypically different behaviors. The new ...
  3 days ago

• Biological Impact of Music Therapy on Aging

  
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  Delays related to age neural timings are not predictable and neither they can be prevented or offset with training in music, as per a research from University of Northwestern. The research is the first to present and put forward the biological evidences that the enduring musical experience has a significant impact on ...
  4 days ago

• Scientists Reconstruct Images From Peoples’ Minds

  
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  Ben Coxworth writing for Gizmag (thanks to Geoff H for the tip): Last September, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley announced that they had developed a method of visually reconstructing images from peoples’ minds, by analyzing their brain activity. Much to the dismay of tinfoil hat-wearers ...
  5 days ago

• Study suggests football-related concussions caused by series of hits, not a single blow

  
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  Football-related concussions may be caused by series of hits to the head over time rather than a single blow, according to findings from a two-year study of high school athletes. In a study slated to be published in the Journal of Biomechanics, Purdue University researchers assigned high school football players to ...
  5 days ago

• Role of Learning and Memory in "Free Will"

  
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  Are you really "the captain of your ship, master of your soul?" read more
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• Role of Learning and Memory in "Free Will"

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Are you really "the captain of your ship, master of your soul?" read more
  5 days ago

• Study published in Neuro-Oncology shows brain tumor eradication and prolonged survival

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 112
  Study conducted in mice treated with Toca 511 and 5-FC Tocagen Inc. today announced the publication of data showing the company’s investigational treatment for high grade glioma eradicates brain tumors and provides a dramatic survival benefit in mouse models of glioblastoma. Almost all mice receiving the top dose of ...
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• As If You Needed Another Reason to Quit

  
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  Nicotine changes the way genes are expressed, which may prime the brain for addiction. read more
  5 days ago

• As If You Needed Another Reason to Quit

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Nicotine changes the way genes are expressed, which may prime the brain for addiction. read more
  5 days ago

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