Chemists build light-controlled neural inhibitor. The notion of a pain switch is an alluring idea, but is it realistic? Well,...
It’s something we just accept: the fact that the older we get, the more difficulty we seem to have remembering...
Neuroscientists take the first step toward deciphering the connection between general brain function and emergent behavioral patterns in autism. Study shows that autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory and somatosensory, or touch, stimuli.
Using fMRI for before-and-after analysis, a team of researchers discovered positive changes in brain activity in children with autism who received a particular type of behavioral therapy.
Researchers have found significant differences in brain development in infants as young as six months old who later develop autism,...
In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others’ possessions, but over-activated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things.
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich identify a new method of unerringly detecting the presence of pathophysiological...
Using several neuroimaging methods, a team of researchers working at the University of Western Ontario have now uncovered that functional changes within a key brain network occur directly after a 30-minute session of noninvasive, neural-based training.
UT Dallas team aids study of how humans view game boards, faces and other visual information. Just as expert chess...
Researchers can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The findings represent a key advance for optogenetics, a state-of-the-art method for making causal connections between brain activity and behavior. Researchers say that similar light-based mind control could likely also be made to work in humans for therapeutic ends.
Effects of obesity on the brain: first evidence of sex-related differences in the brain’s white matter structure Obesity is today...
Biological mechanisms in the brains of traders lead them to predict how others will behave, resulting in stock marketing bubbles crashing; a new study suggests.
