Brain/Neuroscience
How your gut microbiome may affect your brain and emotions
Bacteria in the gut produce vitamins and break down our food; their presence or absence has been linked to obesity, ...
Despite continuing mainstream popularity, ‘Grain Brain’ author finds little support from medical experts
In recent months, the media has become increasingly impatient with high-profile health advocates who dispense unsubstantiated medical advice. Among the ...
Does your brain’s memory have a max storage capacity?
Each day you accumulate fresh memories—kissing new people, acquiring different phone numbers and (possibly) competing in pi-memorizing championships (we would ...
Is the infinite universe of Internet pornography a danger, or an asset to sexuality?
‘The widespread use of internet porn is one of the fastest-moving global experiments ever unconsciously conducted,’ the U.S. science writer ...
What would humans do if we never had to sleep again?
If there was a drug that meant you never had to sleep again, would you take it? Would those who ...
Newsmax unmasked: How scare stories are manufactured by right wing anti-GMO activists
Anti-GMO propaganda production usually emerges from leftist environmental and activist groups. But they have no peer in the pseudo-science emanating ...
Mitochondrial medicine: Pushing the limits of resuscitation
Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell. Along with understanding the role of mitochondria in causing damage to the ...
Preventing brain disease by eating brains? Science doesn’t support sensationalized reporting
Is there a genetic cure for dementia? Recent news reports of a mutation that can protect against a deadly form ...
How one man’s unique blood became life-saving medication
On the surface, James Harrison is just an average guy. He loves his daughter and grandchildren, collects stamps, and goes ...
Cooked food may have given humans evolutionary edge in intelligence
The human brain is an exceptionally hungry organ—an energy-guzzling appliance if ever there was one. As you sit still and ...
Papua New Guinea community shows genetic resistance to mad cow, other brain conditions
Research involving a former brain-eating tribe from Papua New Guinea is helping scientists better understand mad cow disease and other so-called prion ...
Creativity-mental illness link not as strong as advertised in new study
Genetic variations that can collectively increase a person’s risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can also be ...
Some epigenetic changes in DNA are heritable, and research is beginning to explain how
In recent decades scientists have learned that DNA alone is not destiny, and they’ve been focusing on another layer of ...
Can Parkinson’s disease be cured by an injection of fetal cells into the brain?
A new stem cell treatment for Parkinson's diseased highlight the delicate balance of risks vs. rewards. It entail using fetal ...
Creativity and mental illness share genetic markers
The notion of the tortured artist is a stubborn meme. Creativity, it states, is fuelled by the demons that artists ...
Scientists inject electronic device into brains, create cyborgs
No need to wait for the cyborg future—it’s already here. Adding to a growing list of electronics that can be ...
BBC debate: Is GMO opposition grounded in science?
Should we embrace technology that could help feed the world, or are concerns about the impact of global agribusiness and ...
Head transplants? Have scientists lost their minds?
Here’s something that will make your head spin: A Chinese doctor has been surgically transplanting the heads of mice—and he ...
‘Quack science’ NaturalNews website blames glyphosate for Beau Biden’s cancer death
Yes, glioblastomas (and other forms of brain cancer) are nasty tumors. They’re one of the kinds of tumors that, admittedly, ...
Can emeging field of optogenetics transform how scientists study brain and mental health?
For much of the history of brain research, it has been nearly impossible to accurately test ideas about how the ...
Forget what you think you know about how memory works
Where do memories come from? How are our experiences recorded, retained and recalled? For quite some time the science of ...
Epigenetics might explain relapse in patients of substance addiction
One of the major challenges of cocaine addiction is the high rate of relapse after periods of withdrawal and abstinence ...
Tampering with nature is how humans can avoid extinction
Technology causes problems and yes we've been irresponsible to the very environment that keeps us alive. But it can also ...
Variety of infections linked to lower IQ scores
People who have had an infection that made them so sick they had to be hospitalized may have IQs that ...
Does the brain have to learn how to be sick – or well?
The power of the nervous system lies in its ability to learn, even through adulthood. Networks of neurons discover new ...
Your brain interprets the world differently from everyone else’s
Sometimes, other people interpret your words differently than you may have intended--like you're not on the same wavelength. Turns out ...
Robot arm helps paralyzed man have drink using only his thoughts
Erik Sorto hasn't been able to move his arms or legs in a decade, after a gunshot wound 13 years ...
