Results from a brain-imaging study conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in collaboration with Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York indicate that levels of a brain protein proposed as a diagnostic marker for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are not positively correlated with the disease.
A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his collaborators have identified the factor in mammalian brain cells that keeps cells in synchrony so that functions like the wake-sleep cycle, hormone secretion and loco motor behaviors are coordinated daily over a 24-hour period.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered what they believe is the “smoking gun” responsible for most tissue and organ damage after a period of blood oxygen loss followed by a sudden restoration of blood oxygen flow.
University of Alberta researchers have pinpointed a section in the tiny hummingbird’s brain that may be responsible for its unique ability to stay stationary mid-air and hover.
Isabelle Dinoire, who had a partial face transplant a year ago, has recovered so well that she can go out without people noticing her scars, said her doctor, Professor Devauchelle, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens, France. Isabelle says she is now able to smile.
Even small amounts of the drug ecstasy can harm the brains of first time users, a new study shows. This is the first study to examine the effects of low doses of ecstasy on the brain. The study was presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, in Chicago.
A blind man suffering d?j? vu. It sounds like a contradiction in terms — but the first case study of its kind has turned the whole theory of d?j? vu on its head.
Many people with fibromyalgia — a debilitating pain syndrome that affects 2 to 4 percent of the population — have faced the question of whether the condition is real.Increasingly, though, the scientific knowledge about fibromyalgia is growing, and a new paper from the University of Michigan Health System says there are “overwhelming data” that the condition is real.
Your brain may be determining what car you buy before you’ve even taken a test drive. A new study gauging the brain’s response to product branding has found that strong brands elicit strong activity in our brains. The findings were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
Boys and girls tend to use different parts of their brains to process some basic aspects of grammar, according to the first study of its kind, suggesting that sex is an important factor in the acquisition and use of language.