Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Protein linked to Parkinson’s travels from gut to brain

Parkinson’s protein can travel from gut to brain, mouse study suggests.

Neuroscience

Sounds and glowing screens impair mouse brains

Too much light and noise screws up developing mice’s brains.

Neuroscience

Infant brains have powerful reactions to fear

Babies can recognize facial emotions, especially fear, as early as 5 months old.

Neuroscience

Zap to the head leads to fat loss

Stimulating the vestibular nerve led people to shed fat in a small trial.

Neuroscience

Giggling rats help reveal how brain creates joy

Rats relish a good tickle, which activates nerve cells in a part of the brain that detects touch.

Life

Protein mobs kill cells that most need those proteins to survive

A protein engineered to aggregate gives clues about how clumpy proteins kill brain cells.

Neuroscience

Shape-shifting molecule aids memory in fruit flies

A prionlike protein may store long-term memories in fruit flies, a new study suggests.

Neuroscience

Eyes offer window into brain’s timekeepers

In new experiments of time perception, when pupils were large, monkeys underestimated a second.

Neuroscience

Frequent liars show less activity in key brain structure

Brain activity changed as people lied more, a new study finds.

Genetics

Zika disrupts cellular processes to impair brain development

Discoveries about how Zika virus slows brain cell development could lead to treatments.

Neuroscience

Mice smell, share each other’s pain

Pain can jump from one mouse to another, presumably through chemicals detected by the nose.

Animals

Melatonin makes midshipman fish sing

Melatonin lets people sleep but starts male midshipman fish melodiously humming their hearts out.