Brain/Neuroscience
Efficient thinking comes from learning what to ignore
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Let’s begin with a ...
Stem cell research crucial for understanding Zika, fetal brain damage link
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Modern biology needs tools ...
Is criminal behavior in our genes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, a number of ...
Gut microbiome’s role in brain, neurological disorders still unsettled, for now
Does the microbiome have any effect on the brain? Possibly, but we're not ready for probiotics for your brain just ...
US Olympic teams experimenting with brain stimulation to improve athlete’s performance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Elite ski jumpers rely ...
Neuroscientist becomes own subject after brain cancer diagnosis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As the director of ...
What makes you a righty or a lefty?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. About 90 percent of ...
Making monkeys just to suffer: Is new autism model ethical?
Genetic engineers created monkeys that model autism. But some question the ethics of creating such a model when our own ...
Eating meat drove evolution of face muscles
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Meat and tools, not ...
Why some animals live for centuries and don’t get cancer
There are an increasing number of genetic clues from animals that could provide hints to treating aging and age related ...
Are ‘lifestyle drugs’ becoming the way of the future?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Electrocuting your brain, compounding ...
How do courts look at neuroscientific evidence?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Several years ago, Ars looked ...
Biotech billionaire on mission to put self-destructing mosquitoes to use against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the expanding realm ...
Is natural sleep the only kind that counts? Or can we make that artificial, too?
Around the world, people spend billions on sleep. Everyone is looking for a good night's rest. But, amidst all of ...
Nature and nurture both shape brain in their own way
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Twins have long been ...
Why Zika connection to microcephaly, Guillain-Barré hard to prove
Does Zika virus actually cause microcephaly in newborns? Pinning down an answers has been difficult for researchers thus far ...
Court cases increasingly decided with neuroscientific evidence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A study of 1,600 court ...
Tom Wolfe 20 years later: What neuroscience predictions came true?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Twenty years ago, Tom ...
Drugs that target ‘epigenetic scars’ may reverse drug addiction
Research is mounting that not only does epigenetics play an important role in drug addiction, it may also provide a ...
Promising gene therapy could help kill tumors
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cancer scientists toiling in ...
Proving Zika link to microcephaly will take a lot more research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For weeks, Zika virus ...
Promising optogenetics procedure may restore sight to blind
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If all goes according ...
Zika found in brain of fetus supports virus’s role in brain damage, microcephaly
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Zika virus, thought ...
Claims linking Monsanto to microcephaly attributed to bad science, irresponsible journalism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some agenda-driven online outlets ...
Why is your memory so bad when you’re hungry?
Why is it so hard to think while you're hungry? Researchers now believe it may come down to one protein ...
Hundreds of genes linked to schizophrenia, with unclear implications
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have identified hundreds ...
Could gene editing, Prozac or choline treat Down Syndrome?
Scientists may be closing in on an effective treatment for Down Syndrome. But questions abound as to the ethics of ...
