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·April 2, 2011·8 min read

World Autism Awareness Day – Share the Facts About Autism Spectrum Disorders

World Autism Awareness Day is here. April 2, 2011 marks the fourth annual World Autism Awareness Day. To help build...

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·April 1, 2011·3 min read

Google Science Fair 2011 – Global Science Competition for Teenagers

This post is sponsored by Unruly Media. Teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 years old are invited to...

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·April 1, 2011·3 min read

What the Brain Saw

The moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurons in...

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·April 1, 2011·2 min read

Skywalker Ensures Optimal Communication Between Neurons

Communication errors between brain cells may lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s Patrik Verstreken (VIB/K.U.Leuven) has discovered the mechanism...

Neuroscience

·March 31, 2011·2 min read

New Insight Into “Aha!” Memories

When we suddenly get the answer to a riddle or understand the solution to a problem, we can practically feel...

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·March 31, 2011·2 min read

The Brain Against Words in the Mirror

Most people can read texts reflected in a mirror slowly and with some effort, but a team of scientists from...

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·March 31, 2011·4 min read

Fruit Fly’s Response to Starvation Could Help Control Human Appetites

Biologists at UC San Diego have identified the molecular mechanisms triggered by starvation in fruit flies that enhance the nervous...

Neurology

·March 30, 2011·1 min read

New Method to Localize Epileptic Focus in Severe Epilepsy

The first two stereo-EEG explorations in Finland were carried out by neurosurgeons of the Epilepsy surgery team in Helsinki University...

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·March 30, 2011·2 min read

Blood Simple Circuitry for Cyborgs

Simplifying cyborg circuitry using human blood Could electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces?...

Neurology

·March 29, 2011·2 min read

Indications of Alzheimer’s disease may be evident decades before first signs of cognitive impairment

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease have lower glucose utilization in the brain than those with normal cognitive function, and that those decreased levels may be detectable approximately 20 years prior to the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.