Neuroscience

  1. Health & Medicine

    Going Under

    While every anesthetic drug has its own effect, scientists know little about how the various versions work on the brain to transport patients from normal waking awareness to dreamless nothingness.

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  2. Neuroscience

    The Tell-Tale Brain

    A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Stefan Koelsch’s music research

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  4. Psychology

    Joint attention provides clues to autism and cooperation

    Psychologists and philosophers convene to discuss the roots of shared knowledge at a meeting in Waltham, Mass.

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  5. Life

    Book Review: The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia–The Brain Cell That Will Help Us Sharpen Our Wits, Heal Injury, and Treat Brain Disease by Andrew Koob

    Review by Tina Hesman Saey.

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  6. Neuroscience

    Book Review: Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases by Jamie Talan

    Review by Nathan Seppa.

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  7. Neuroscience

    It’s written all over your face

    To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Selective memory

    Using genetic engineering and chemical manipulation, scientists erased the memory of a stressful experience from a mouse’s brain.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Breaking the Barrier

    A technique combining ultrasound pulses with microbubbles may help scientists move therapeutic drugs across the brain’s protective divide.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Highly wired

    Men’s brain tissue shows higher density of neuron connections than similar tissue from women.

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  11. Neuroscience

    New insights on new neurons

    Neurogenesis works differently in two parts of the brain. New neurons are necessary for making memories and keep the olfactory bulb’s structure but aren’t needed for smelling, study in mice shows.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Neuron Killers

    Misfolded, clumping proteins evade conviction, but they remain prime suspects in neurodegenerative diseases.

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