This is a Neuroscience News book review of Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition by Christopher M. Filley. Lately, neuroscience anatomy books tend to focus on visually stunning images of the brain and colorful drawings of various nervous system components while sacrificing [Read More]
Oxytocin Improves Brain Function in Children with Autism Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that oxytocin, a [Read More]
Dartmouth researchers investigate the cognitive effects of athlete head impacts. Dartmouth faculty and students played prominent roles in a recent study on the cognitive effects [Read More]
Our baseline level of distrust is distinct and separable from our inborn lie detector. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus. Scientists at [Read More]
A gene variant responsible for vascular damage to the brain is a promising new target for drug therapy to fight Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, [Read More]
What can a fish tell us about human brain development? Researchers at Duke University Medical Center transplanted a set of human genes into a zebrafish and then used it to [Read More]
