Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Tadpoles with eyes in their tails see the light

Transplanted eyes in the creature’s tail can distinguish between red and blue.

Science & Society

No New Meds

With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up.

Humans

Language learning may begin before birth

Newborns show signs of having tracked moms’ speech while still in the womb.

Neuroscience

Hallucinations

by Oliver Sacks.

Neuroscience

Your social brain

Nerve cells notice mistakes and learn from others’ desires.

Neuroscience

Study gives a jolt to brain researchers seeking to understand face blindness

Neuroscience

Highlights from Neuroscience 2012

A collection of reports from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, New Orleans.

Neuroscience

Drug helps put bad memories to rest

A brain injection before sleep aids fearful mice — and might lead to a PTSD treatment strategy.

Neuroscience

Teens can keep their cool to win rewards

An unexpected experimental result suggests adolescent impulsivity is not inevitable.

Neuroscience

To understand meetings of minds, scientists should study brains in the wild

Neuroscience

Nonstick trick in the brain

Getting drugs into the brain has proved to be a nanoscale puzzle: Anything bigger than 64 nanometers — about the size of a small virus — gets stuck in the space between brain cells once it gets through the blood-brain barrier. Justin Hanes of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and colleagues got around this rule by coating particles destined for brain cells in a dense layer of a polymer called polyethylene glycol.

Neuroscience

Copycat mentality may be a hardwired way for animals to learn to avoid others’ mistakes

Copycat mentality may be a hardwired way for animals to learn to avoid others’ mistakes.