Brain/Neuroscience
Pro fighters monitored to shed light on early signs of trauma-induced brain damage
Researchers have enrolled close to 700 mixed martial arts fighters and boxers, both active and retired, in the past six years ...
When does life begin? Here are 17 points in time to consider
The US Department of Health and Human Services has taken the official position that life begins at conception. Here's a ...
Why the quest for artificial intelligence almost died in infancy
It feels as if we’re riding the wave of a novel technological era, but the current rise in neural networks ...
Human empathy gene might determine your emotional ability
In a first-of-its kind study looking at empathy, researchers have found strong evidence that the ability to read and understand ...
How do you know if your mutation will lead to a genetic disease?
Sonia Vallabh, a scientist, carries a rare mutation that normally causes a neurodegenerative disease. How likely is it she will ...
Predicting Alzheimer’s: 31-gene test may offer strongest risk assessment
The APOE4 e4 gene has long been associated with an elevated risk for alzheimer's. But a new test panel involving ...
Analyzing Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock’s brain might illuminate ‘psychopathy’
It's easy to chalk up [Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen] Paddock's horrific actions simply to "evil," as politicians and media ...
Different types of meditations affect your brain in unique ways
We are used to hearing that meditation is good for the brain, but now it seems that not just any kind ...
Artificial Intelligence may offer early Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Canadian researchers at McGill University believe they can predict Alzheimer’s disease up to two years before its onset using big ...
Are you reading this because you want to? Or because the neurons in your brain want you to?
If you’ve ever read an article proclaiming that neuroscience disproves free will, you’ve probably heard of the Libet experiment. … ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week – Oct. 9, 2017
Neonicotinoid seed treatments: Effective crop protectants—or unnecessary, with potential collateral damage to bees? | Paul McDivitt Tick tock, circadian clock research ...
Do GMOs, pesticides cause cancer? The Amish would say ‘no’
Amish farmers may not get cancer as much, but it's not because they don't use pesticides or GMOs. In fact, ...
Inside the minds of people with obsessive-compulsive disorders
About 10 years ago David Adam scratched his finger on a barbed wire fence...As a science journalist and author of ...
What do we know about wine as a magic elixir?
Is wine good or bad for you? Much of the attention surrounding the drink has focused on the compound resveratrol, ...
Viewpoint: We need to change the way autism research is funded
[Editor's note: John Rodakis is the founder and CEO of N of One: Autism Research Foundation.] Robert Naviaux, a professor ...
Sudden increase in Zika’s potency linked to small mutation
It remains one of the great mysteries of the Zika epidemic: Why did a virus that existed for decades elsewhere ...
Tick tock, circadian clock research wins Nobel Prize—and why it may help us sleep and travel to Mars
Our clock system is in organisms across the planet. Better understanding of our internal body rhythms may help pave the ...
CRISPR shows promise against a ‘range of disorders’ in animal studies
The race is on to edit the DNA in our body to fight or prevent disease. Promising results from animal ...
Here’s what we do and don’t know about pornography and violence
Porn has transformed over the past few decades, due to the availability of the internet and faster web connections. […] ...
CRISPR ear injections repair genetic hearing loss in mice
We all know that CRISPR is the next big thing in gene-editing treatments. But how do you get the versatile genetic scissors ...
Treating aggressive brain cancer with poliovirus
The idea of using a modified poliovirus as a treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer isn't new. But recent research shows ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week – Oct. 2, 2017
Tale of two neonicotinoid bumble bee studies—And how science can be massaged | Jon Entine Upchuck factor: Alcoholism targeted with novel ...
15 years in vegetative slumber, man stirs after brain stimulation
Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35-year-old Frenchman ...
Insomnia cures: Do drug remedies provide the kind of sleep that our brain needs?
People spend billions on sleep remedies. The act of sleep and artificially assisting sleep are not on the whole a ...
Postpartum depression: It impacts dads, too
Postpartum depression affects fathers, too. Men experience lower testosterone levels throughout pregnancy and paternal care, increasing the chance of depression ...
Modified polio virus could be used as cancer treatment
A protein common on some types of cancer cell turns out to be the same one that in other circumstances ...
Baby or your life: Pregnant women with cancer face impossible choice
Sadly, a woman’s tragic story-- recently all over the news-- plays out in the real world more often than people may ...
