Brain/Neuroscience
Is it time to discuss what we should or shouldn’t do with ‘lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue’?
Rusty Gage and colleagues at the Salk Institute [recently] announced that they had successfully transplanted lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue ...
Close to home: Biologist was studying gene now linked to daughter’s rare illness
By the time her mother received the doctor’s email, Yuna Lee was already 2 years old, a child with a ...
Treating severe autism with a controversial marijuana compound
UC San Diego will try to alleviate severe autism in children by giving them a non-psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, ...
Dream state: Researchers manipulate ‘borderland’ between waking and sleeping
There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, but ...
Boosting brain research by growing ‘mini-brains’ to model human disease
'Mini-brains' grown in petri dishes could offer new possibilities for studying disease ...
Menopause may put women at greater risk for Alzheimer’s
[W]e are only beginning to understand is why women are more susceptible [to Alzheimer's]. What factors differentiate women from men, ...
What we know about brain aneurysms like the one that struck MLB pitcher Danny Farquhar
Chicago White Sox relief pitcher Danny Farquhar, 31, suffered a brain hemorrhage in the White Sox dugout after throwing 15 ...
Teens with autism show ‘similar brain activity’ to neurotypical teens after behavioral therapy
There is a large amount of evidence that behavioral interventions can change behavior in autism. Most interventions focus on social ...
Understanding the difference between eugenics and genetic tests that predict intelligence
Polygenic scores ... can predict a person’s intelligence or performance in school. Like a credit score, a polygenic score is ...
About the musician who played the flute — during her brain surgery
A professional musician suffering from career-affecting tremors underwent deep brain stimulation. This procedure can help Parkinson's patients, epileptics, and those ...
Night owls more likely to eat poorly, use drugs, die earlier
Night owls may be more fun at parties, but a preference for staying out late may come with some serious ...
Our brain works ’10 million times slower’ than computers—so why is it better at some tasks?
[W]hy is the computer good at certain tasks whereas the brain is better at others? Comparing the computer and the ...
Caffeine more than a morning boost? It may increase brain’s ‘useful anarchy’ and ‘processing capacity’
“[B]rain entropy” – intense complexity and irregular variability in brain activity from one moment to the next, [is] marked by greater ...
Viewpoint: Peggy Sarlin’s ‘Awakening from Alzheimer’s’ offers ‘false claims, false hope’
[S]cientists are diligently working to understand [Alzheimer’s] disease and find an effective treatment. Others apparently think they needn’t bother. A ...
Risky business: Your brain may be wired to take chances
Using brain scans, a new study has observed a link between connections in the brain and the ability of the person to tolerate ...
Humans produce new neurons affecting learning, memory and emotion throughout our lives
Humans continue to produce new neurons in a part of their brain involved in learning, memory and emotion throughout adulthood, ...
Implantable ‘neural lace’: How we may be able to stimulate our brain to regain youthful functions
[Elon] Musk stated publicly that given the current rate of A.I. advancement, humans could ultimately expect to be left behind—cognitively, ...
Video: Innovative brain-mapping techniques could unlock neuroscience secrets
What [neuroscientist Tony] Zador showed me was a map of 50,000 neurons in the cerebral cortex of a mouse. It ...
MIT Media Lab halts relationship with startup Nectome over storing their brains in fatal ‘brain uploads’
The MIT Media Lab will sever ties with a brain-embalming company that promoted euthanasia to people hoping for digital immortality ...
How Rev. Thomas Bayes’ faith helped us understand how the brain works
It all began in 1748, when the philosopher David Hume published An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, calling into question, among ...
Viewpoint: Time to reassess Nazi Hans Asperger’s role in study of autism
I have spent the past seven years researching the Nazi past of Dr. Hans Asperger. Asperger is credited with shaping ...
Recording brain activity gets easier with novel device
An improved method for recording brain activity could prove a major asset to neuroscience, according to a Nature paper just out: Moving magnetoencephalography ...
Tracking the role of tau protein in Alzheimer’s
Jhon Kennedy’s relatives understood the illness they faced. For more than three decades, researchers there have been tracking a genetic ...
Viewpoint: 10 things everyone should know about autism
I offer 10 things I wish everyone knew about autism. I'm a developmental and behavioral pediatrician specializing in autism spectrum ...
Faulty wiring? Tracing damaged circuits linked to autism, schizophrenia
Neuroscientists today know a lot about how individual neurons operate but remarkably little about how large numbers of them work ...
We know the placebo effect is biological. Is it also genetic?
We know that the placebo effect is in part biological: expectations of receiving a palliative leads to brain changes. Are ...
Where do we come from? Question grows ever more complicated
It was recently discovered that modern humans are part of the African great apes family, but how did this classification ...
