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Molecular Path from Internal Clock to Cells Controlling Rest and Activity Revealed

The molecular pathway that carries time-of-day signals from the body’s internal clock to ultimately guide daily behavior is like a black box, says Amita [Read More]

Working Memory and the Brain

Working Memory and the Brain

Visual working memory not as specialized in the brain as visual encoding, study finds. Researchers have long known that specific parts of the brain activate when [Read More]

Scientists Decode Brain Waves to Eavesdrop on What We Hear

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, [Read More]

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Scientists Boost Memory by Stimulating Key Site in Brain

Scientists Boost Memory by Stimulating Key Site in Brain

Mechanism holds potential for improving recall in dementia patients. Have you ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you parked the car? New UCLA research may one day [Read More]

Psychology

Explorers Use Uncertainty and Specific Area of Brain

As they try to find the best reward among options, some people explore based on how uncertain they are about the [Read More]

Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication

New research reveals how the brain appears to adapt to compensate for the effects of long-term ADHD medication, [Read More]

Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure [Read More]

Electrophysiology

Scientists Decode Brain Waves to Eavesdrop on What We Hear

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of [Read More]

Genetics

Gene Therapy for Inherited Blindness Succeeds in Patients’ Other Eye

In three adults, repeat dose safely improves vision. Gene therapy for congenital blindness has taken another step forward, as researchers further [Read More]

Researchers Increase Understanding of Gene’s Potentially Protective Role in Parkinson’s

Researchers Increase Understanding of Gene’s Potentially Protective Role in Parkinson’s

Treatments for Parkinson’s disease, estimated to affect 1 million Americans, have yet to prove effective in slowing the progression of the [Read More]

DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13

A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome [Read More]

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Explorers Use Uncertainty and Specific Area of Brain

Explorers Use Uncertainty and Specific Area of Brain

As they try to find the best reward among options, some people explore based on how uncertain they are about the outcome of the options. Those who employ that thought process, unlike people who use other strategies, uniquely harness the computational power of the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex, a new study finds. Life shrouds most choices [Read More]

Gene Therapy for Inherited Blindness Succeeds in Patients’ Other Eye

Gene Therapy for Inherited Blindness Succeeds in Patients’ Other Eye

In three adults, repeat dose safely improves vision. Gene therapy for congenital blindness has taken another step forward, as [Read Article]

Molecular Path from Internal Clock to Cells Controlling Rest and Activity Revealed

Molecular Path from Internal Clock to Cells Controlling Rest and Activity Revealed

The molecular pathway that carries time-of-day signals from the body’s internal clock to ultimately guide daily behavior is like [Read Article]

Sharp Images from the Living Mouse Brain

Sharp Images from the Living Mouse Brain

Max Planck scientists in Göttingen have for the first time made finest details of nerve cells in the brain of a living mouse visible. [Read Article]

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