Neuroscience

  1. Neuroscience

    Claim of memory transfer made 50 years ago

    Scientist’s claims of transferred memories were more fiction than fact.

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  2. Life

    Chemical magic transforms skin cells into nerve cells

    Just a few chemicals can transform skin cells from Alzheimer’s patients and healthy people into nerve cells.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Astrocytes help speed up brain’s messages

    Astrocytes may help speed nerve cells’ electrical messages.

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  4. Animals

    Caterpillar treats and tricks ants by oozing spiked juice

    Caterpillars ooze droplets that lure ants away from colony duties to instead lick and defend their drug source, new lab tests suggest.

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  5. Neuroscience

    New view of mouse brain provides up-close look at nerve cells’ habitat

    Detailed reconstruction of a tiny fleck of mouse brain reveals neural complexity.

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  6. Neuroscience

    Global warming unpaused, how space affects the brain and more reader feedback

    A reader shares a story about Stephen Jay Gould, while others discuss how to protect the brain from radiation in space and whether 2014 was the hottest year on record.

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  7. Neuroscience

    Brain activity in unconscious patients offers new views of awareness

    As more people survive serious brain injury, researchers are using EEG and fMRI to learn who is aware inside an unresponsive body.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Age affects brain’s response to anesthesia

    Anesthesia has different effects on young and old brains.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Boosting estrogen, only in the brain

    Scientists have developed a chemical that transforms into the hormone estrogen in the brain, but not the body, of rats.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Death by brain-eating amoeba is an inside job

    Immune response to brain-eating amoeba may be the real killer.

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  11. Neuroscience

    Breakdown of Alzheimer’s protein slows with age

    It takes longer to get rid of an Alzheimer’s-associated protein with age.

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  12. Neuroscience

    Bundles of cells hint at biological differences of autistic brains

    Using miniature organoids that mimic the human brain, scientists have identified developmental differences between autistic children and their non-autistic family members.

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