Simon Makin
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Are you an early bird or a night owl? Simple blood test could answer the question
Are you an early-rising lark or a night owl? These terms have gained scientific credibility, with researchers determining such differences ...
Cataloguing brain cells to better understand how our minds work
If you stumbled across a radio or a computer and had no idea how it worked, you would likely first ...
Could we ‘rewire our brains’ to stop sugar cravings?
Imagine if we could rewire our brains so that tastes we usually crave became unpleasant—or even nullify responses to taste ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hunting for DNA: Piecing together autism’s genetic puzzle
It’s been 10 years since Michael Wigler had a breakthrough revelation in autism genetics...[when he] reported that ‘de novo’ mutations — those that ...
Closer to curing Alzheimer’s as new drug reaches landmark stage in clinical trial
Although there are currently no approved therapies that slow or stop progression of [Alzheimer's Disease], several approaches are showing promise ...
New, improved brain implants can ‘talk’ to single neuron
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Brain implants have been ...
Exercise, stress speeds brain’s ability to repair iteself
Running helps mice to recover from a type of blindness caused by sensory deprivation early in life, researchers report. The ...