What is Spinal Muscular Atrophy? Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic neuromuscular disorder affecting both the peripheral and central nervous systems, as well as skeletal […]
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Thoughts, memories, behavior, mood—all of these things and more form our identity. During periods of trauma or stress, these aspects of ourselves can become disconnected. […]
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Feel like nothing is worth giving it a try? Like everything that you do, provides little to no satisfaction? We all have things that we […]
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In 2016, the Global Cognitive Assessment and Training Market accounted for $1.80 billion. It is set to grow at a CAGR of 31.10% during 2017-2024 […]
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ManDee Nogle of The Brain Fitness and Training Center LLC has been using brain training at her practice for years. By using a brain […]
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Everyone strives for happiness in their life, but where is it actually located? I don’t mean where you have to move to in order to […]
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Aging in brain found to hurt sleep needed for memory. Scientists have known for decades that the ability to remember newly learned information declines with […]
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Brain cancer-causing virus strikes west coast raccoons. An outbreak of a previously unknown virus that causes fatal brain cancer in raccoons has been detected in […]
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Scientists explore the illusion of memory. Every time someone recalls a memory, it’s a chance to change it. A memory might seem like a permanent, […]
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Electrical impulses in the brain encode protocols for behaviors. Neuroscientists have long been perplexed by how our brains encode thoughts, including memory loss and awareness, […]
Continue reading »The hunt for brain injury treatments has suffered a big disappointment in a major study that found zero benefits from a supplement that the U.S. […]
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Learning foreign languages triggers brain growth. In the Swedish Academy of young translators, new recruits study a crash course in complex languages. It is not […]
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A 3-D light switch for the brain. A new tool for neuroscience delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller […]
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Simulated brain ramps up to include 100 trillion synapses. Neurosynaptic Cores This network of neurosynaptic cores is derived from wiring in the monkey brain. The […]
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When brain implants arrive, will we still be “us”? What happens when non-biological implants in our bodies — along the lines of cochlear implants to […]
Continue reading »We have the pleasure to announce today the release of our newly developed brain fitness iPad app. Specifically designed for the iPad, you will find […]
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A better brain implant: Slim electrode cozies up to single neurons. The main problem that neurons have with electrodes is that they make terrible neighbors. […]
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Mind-reading scan locates site of meaning in the brain. Meanings of words can be hard to locate when they are on the tip of your […]
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Leap forward in brain-controlled computer cursors: new algorithm greatly improves speed and accuracy. Stanford researchers have designed the fastest, most accurate algorithm yet for brain-implantable […]
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Optogenetics illuminates pathways of motivation through brain. Whether you are an apple tree or an antelope, survival depends on using your energy efficiently. In a […]
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Air pollution ‘ages the brain’ a study suggests. Elderly people living in areas of high air pollution have brains that are ‘three years older’ as […]
Continue reading »PTSD is difficult to treat because it is stored throughout the brain. And just as you can suffer from a little to a lot of […]
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Study tracks brain gene response to territorial aggression The male, threespined stickleback defends its nest against invaders. Researchers tracked changes in gene activity in its […]
Continue reading »Neurons made from stem cells drive brain activity after transplantation in laboratory model. Sanford-Burnham researchers convince transplanted stem cell-derived neurons to direct cognitive function—getting us […]
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Einstein’s brain: It was better than yours. Albert Einstein’s brain was “unlike those of most people,” according to a new study led by Florida State […]
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The music of a human brain. Researchers have turned human mental activity into music, and it sounds uncannily like free-form jazz piano. The new brain-to-sound […]
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This is your brain on freestyle rap. Using brain scans, scientists try to find the hallmark of a creative process. In the worldwide cultural juggernaut […]
Continue reading »Deterioration of the brain sneaks up on most of us. The first clue might be hearing loss, especially in the higher frequencies. We may be […]
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Can teen brain development help explain juvenile crime? Pr. Steinberg from Temple University explains: “Our brains don’t develop until much later in life and the […]
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Brain gene pushed humans past apes. An international team of researchers led by Scottish scientists says it has discovered a gene that helps explain how […]
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Brain waves transformed into music. Naturally, our brain activity waxes and wanes. When listening, this oscillation synchronizes to the sounds we are hearing. Researchers at […]
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Light at night may lead to depression, brain functioning problems. Reading on your iPad, surfing the web on your laptop and watching TV late into […]
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Drinking decreases number of new brain cells. You don’t have to be a heavy drinker to hurt your brain. Even moderate amounts of alcohol can […]
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Alzheimer’s signs show in young brain. Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease are increasingly finding clues that the brain begins to deteriorate years before a person shows […]
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Migraines’ brain changes not linked to mental harm. Women who get migraines are more likely than those who don’t to develop small areas of tissue […]
Continue reading »Having a head injury can be risky enough, but a new study finds people who suffered a traumatic brain injury and lived in area with […]
Continue reading »Technology, the Internet and our brain networks (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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How the Internet is shaping our “global brain”. The South Africans have a beautiful philosophy called Ubuntu, which translates as “I am what I am […]
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Soccer players without concussions still have brain changes. A small study of professional soccer players found that even those who have never experienced a concussion […]
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High blood pressure may cause harmful brain changes in people as young as 40, a study suggests. In the report, published online Nov. 2 in […]
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Mutations in the human brain are making us stupider, new research shows. A Stanford University professor presented evidence Monday that mutations in the human brain […]
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Meditation makes lasting change in brain. A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation brain training program can have measurable effects on […]
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Early autism treatment changes social behavior, brain. Researchers at the School of Medicine’s Child Study Center have demonstrated the effectiveness of early intervention treatments for […]
Continue reading »A new study demonstrates the dynamic role cilia play in guiding the migration of neurons in the embryonic brain. Cilia are tiny hair-like structures on […]
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How the brain keeps track of who’s number 1. We use a different part of our brain to learn about who’s who in the social […]
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Your unconscious brain can do math, process language. The unconscious brain may not be able to ace an SAT test, but new brain research suggests […]
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Doctors talk to vegetative patient through brain scans. Doctors have managed to communicate with a patient who’s been in a vegetative state for more than […]
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Mutant brain proteins linked to autism. Scientists continue to gain insights into the causes of autism, possibly opening doors for potential new treatments. Researchers from […]
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Human brain Is wired for harmony. Many creatures, such as human babies, chimpanzees, and chicks, react negatively to dissonance—harsh, unstable, grating sounds. Since the days […]
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Better brain implants with ultrathin carbon fiber electrodes. In hopes of revolutionizing implant technology, researchers have developed a new neural interface that has great potentials […]
Continue reading »Animals that are socially isolated for prolonged periods make less myelin in the region of the brain responsible for complex emotional and cognitive behavior, researchers […]
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Newborn neurons, even in the adult aging brain, are critical for memory. Newly generated neurons in the adult hippocampus are critical for memory retrieval, according […]
Continue reading »The Greek philosopher Democritus (460-370 B.C.E.) might have been the first to hypothesize that the two fundamental human motives are to approach rewards and avoid […]
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Several projects are trying to reverse-engineer the brain. When it comes to the human brain, many scientists believe that we are incapable of understanding how […]
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Substance addiction and the inherent differences in brain functions. According to data published by NIDA (National Institutes of Drug Abuse) nearly 20 million Americans have […]
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Infant stress affects teen brain. For some girls, stressful experiences in the first year of life seem to drive hormonal changes later in childhood. And […]
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PTSD, brain injury leaves veterans suffering. The disorder still is misunderstood not only by veterans but the civilian public as well. When not diagnosed and […]
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A legendary rock and roll drummer teams up with a neuroscientist to explore the role of rhythm in brain function. This September, Grateful Dead drummer […]
Continue reading »Uncontrolled high blood pressure damages the brain’s structure and function as early as young middle-age, and even the brains of middle-aged people who clinically would […]
Continue reading »Morality problems cause much more worry for people with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), compared to the general population, researchers from the Hospital de Mar, Barcelona, Spain, […]
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This is your brain on the Internet. Researchers have discovered that we can become addicted to the Internet just like we can become addicted to […]
Continue reading »A new study that focuses on “white matter” finds that learning how to read relies on changes in brain connections. The researchers found that high-performing […]
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Empathy represses analytic thought, and vice versa: brain physiology limits simultaneous use of both networks. When the brain fires up the network of neurons that […]
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Brain change link to anti-social behaviour in girls. The brains of teenage girls with behavioural disorders are different to those of their peers, UK researchers […]
Continue reading »A group of scientists from the University of Copenhagen has created a model that shows how some types of ADHD medicine influence the brain’s reward […]
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How a head cold will affect your brain. Feelings of malaise, low mood and muddled thinking go hand-in-hand with having a cold and may be […]
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Brain protein mutation linked to autism. Researchers said they have discovered a genetic mutation in people with autism that cuts communication between brain cells to […]
Continue reading »A new study from the US reveals for the first time, that the brain has a distinct pattern of electrical activity as patients lose consciousness […]
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Chopra: Reinventing the brain is closer than you think. Thanks to brain scans like the fMRI, brain activity can be localized and even the most […]
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Concentration is a key skill that you need to nurture in your daily life. In our modern societies, information-processing demands on the individuals are continually […]
Continue reading »A small study led by Matthias Koepp, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK, stated that, memory impairment in frontal lobe epilepsy remained unclear. Therefore, the […]
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