FeaturedOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·October 27, 2015·3 min readBody Maps of Touch and Social Relationships are Tightly LinkedA new study reports on the connection between social relationships and touch.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·October 27, 2015·4 min readInsulin Influences Dopamine LevelsA new study reports that when there is more insulin in the brain, more dopamine will be released.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·October 27, 2015·6 min readSeeing in SoundResearchers have discovered that crossmodal mappings can be used by assistive devices to help the blind detect their environment without requiring intensive training.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 26, 2015·3 min readStudying Development of Inner Ear Could Help Restore Hearing and BalanceResearchers identify two genes that help produce hair cells in the inner ears of mice.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 26, 2015·5 min readHow Alzheimer’s Protein Tangles Spread Through the BrainA new study provides a rare, pathological version of how tau proteins can pass directly from neuron to neuron in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 26, 2015·5 min readThree Minute Test Detects Common Form of Dementia Which is Hard to DiagnoseResearchers have developed a new test which they claim can detect Lewy Body disease in as little as three minutes.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 20, 2015·3 min readNew Math Method Reveals Structure of Neural ActivityResearchers have developed a new math method that can detect geometric structures in the brain's neural activity.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 16, 2015·4 min readAstrocytes Could Hold the Clue to ALSAccording to researchers, astrocytes lose the ability to support motor neurons as ALS progresses.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 16, 2015·2 min readFungal Infections Linked to Alzheimer’s DiseaseExamining the brains of a small number of people who had Alzheimer's disease, researchers find evidence of fungal infections in key areas of the brain which become damaged as the disease progresses.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 16, 2015·3 min readSniffing Out The Route to the Very Best FruitResearchers report spider monkeys are expert at sniffing out optimally ripe fruits to eat.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·October 14, 2015·3 min readA Brain Network for Observed Social Threat InteractionsResearchers use large scale neural recording and big data to reveal how observed social threat is recalled from memory.Read More
AutismFeaturedOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·October 14, 2015·4 min readAltered Connections Between Eye Contact and Facial Mimicry in AutismA new study investigates how joint attention and spontaneous facial mimicry interact in relation to each other in people with autism.Read More
