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Researchers have finally been able to show how the male and female brain are poles apart.
The research contradicts the long-held theory that the differences in the way the sexes think are caused by social pressure and upbringing, or the action of sex...
Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies _ sudden infant death syndrome.
The elderly fear breaking a hip when they fall, but a government study indicates that hitting their head can also have deadly consequences: Brain injuries account for half of all deaths from falls.
A Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at age 115 in 2005 appeared sharp right up to the end, joking that pickled herring was the secret to her longevity.
It’s a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients’ nerve circuitry fires.
Many Iraq war veterans with traumatic brain injury are not getting adequate health care and job assistance for their long-term recovery despite years of government pledges to do so, Veterans Affairs Department investigators say.
The House voted Tuesday to expand research into and surveillance of traumatic brain injuries, which affect some 1.5 million Americans every year and have come to be the signature wound of the war in Iraq. It also moved to ensure that all newborns get adequate screening for genetic or metabolic diseases.
Scientists inspired by the legendary improv of Miles Davis and John Coltrane are peering inside the brains of today’s jazz musicians to learn where creativity comes from. Think dreaming.
Scientists inspired by the legendary improv of Miles Davis and John Coltrane are peering inside the brains of today’s jazz musicians to learn where creativity comes from. Think dreaming.
Ever thought that the serious looking, boring scientists can think beyond the technical and scientific world! Well, to some extent yes, even they can be fashion savvy and may love to sport tattoos. However, it is debatable whether their body art...
Hitachi is still working on their hardware. They are currently moving towards making a 5TB HDD which they predict will be ready by 2010. Considering that most other hardware devices in the computer almost start to limit the amount of space they can...
Death row is the end of the line for most people, but some are lucky enough to appeal and get off the sentence. But could there be a computer to predict who lives and who ‘dies’? The US might just have something like that. ANN, artificial neural...
Just as the activity in a computer can be perceived on multiple different levels, you would be knowing that with the help of Electroencephalography (EEG), we can study the electrical activity of the brain too. And its more then just news when an EEG...
In an effort to study the process of memory formation scientists of Japan’s Nara Institute of Science and Technology in western Japan and Kinki University have implanted a small camera into the hippocampus of a mouse’s brain. The observations, the...
For people with lost limbs or lost memories, researches in brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have a series of good news. Researchers in this field are working on developing an array of new computing techniques that will help replace the lost parts of...
A study published in ‘Brain’, a journal highlighted the massive benefits of a rehabilitation training for patients with spinal cord injuries. The intensive training has been sidelined in the recent years, espeially after the breakthrough of stem cell...
What happens when thousands of rat cells are kept in a petri dish? It learns to fly a jet plane. I am not out of mind as I write this, this may sound as piece of sci-fi but this is what exactly 37 year old, Thomas DeMarse, assistant professor of...
While studying brains of rats, researchers of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered the protein associated with learning and remembering. The protein that deals with learning and remembering is called kalirin-7.
The...
A new study showing the correlation of insulin deficiency between patients with Alzheimer’s and diabetes has been established giving a better understanding in treating old-aged individuals with the diseases.
With how diabetic patients are given...
Actor Ben Bereen talks with a patient at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, July 18, 2008. Vereen was in Little Rock on Friday to visit hospital patients and raise money for a $32 million center at the...
