Neuroscience

  1. Science & Society

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    Science policy and sleep get a deeper review.

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  2. Neuroscience

    The Aesthetic Brain

    How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art by Anjan Chatterjee.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Concussion-free head blows may still affect brain

    Some college athletes who played contact sports had more changes in their brain’s white matter than varsity competitors in less violent games.

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  4. Neuroscience

    Lighting up the lightning speed of vesicle formation

    While the release of neurotransmitters from vesicles is speedy, we always thought vesicle formation was slow. It turns out that vesicle formation can zip along much faster than we thought.

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  5. Neuroscience

    Brain chip enables injured rats to control movements

    Prosthesis bypasses damaged area to connect distant neurons.

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  6. Neuroscience

    Faulty brain wiring may contribute to dyslexia

    Adults with the disorder showed difficulty transmitting information among areas that process language.

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  7. Life

    Autism may have link to chemicals made by gut microbes

    Beneficial bacteria improved abnormal behaviors in mice with altered intestines.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Excess activity shrinks blood vessels in baby mouse brains

    Newborn mouse pups experience permanent brain changes when repeatedly overstimulated.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Fear can be inherited

    Parents’ and even grandparents’ experiences echo in offspring, a study of mice finds.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Global neuro lab

    With more than 50 million users, the brain-training website Lumosity is giving scientists access to an enormous collection of cognitive performance data. Mining the dataset could be the first step toward a new kind of neuroscience.

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  11. Neuroscience

    The memory benefits of distraction

    We usually think of distraction as a bad thing for memory. But under certain conditions, distraction may help rather than hurt.

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  12. Neuroscience

    Gene that boosts Alzheimer’s risk might protect against it too

    Carrying certain genetic versions of apolipoprotein E is a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. A new study looks at the effects of different types of APOE on the major markers of Alzheimer’s in mice and shows that all forms are not equal.

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