Doctors Have Ethical Obligation to Educate, Protect Athletes from Concussion
The AAN states doctors have an ethical obligation to educate and protect athletes from sports concussions. ... Read More...
Neuroethics
Neuroethics articles can cover the ethics of research related to neuroscience, brain research involving ethical choices, fMRI studies, controversial research and other topics to debate.
The Race to the Top: The Use of ‘Smart Drugs’ to Excel in Academia and in the Professional World
Zaheera Shabbir presents her opinion about the use of nootropics as smart drugs to enhance cognitive abilities. ... Read More...
More Study Needed on Interrogation Techniques That Measure Brain Waves
Researchers caution on the use of Brain Fingerprinting for criminal investigation.... Read More...
Significant Progress Toward Creating “Benchtop Human” Reported
Researchers move a step closer to creating a bench-top human which could eventually replace animal testing.... Read More...
Researcher Seeks to Help Those Who Can’t Speak for Themselves
Non-communicative individuals, such as those in comas or vegetative states, may be able to express themselves better than is widely thought, a new study reports. ... Read More...
Potential Neurological Treatments Often Advance to Clinical Trials on Shaky Evidence
A new study claims clinical trials for neurological diseases often fail because the animal studies which preceded them were poorly designed or biased in their interpretation. ... Read More...
Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Obesity?
Electrical brain stimulation targeting the “dysregulated reward circuitry” could make deep brain stimulation a new option for the difficult-to-treat problem of obesity.... Read More...
Pupil Dilation Reveals Sexual Orientation
Researchers used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos. Pupils widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual to homosexual.... Read More...
Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light
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.... Read More...
Poisoning from Industrial Compounds Can Cause Similar Effects to ALS
Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Barcelona have coordinated research into how the IDPN nitrile causes neurological syndromes similar to those of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a severe neuromuscular degenerative disease.... Read More...
H1N1 Vaccine Associated With Small but Significant Risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Analysis of recent H1N1 vaccination data indicated a small but significant risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome following influenza A(H1N1) vaccinations.... Read More...
Remembering to Forget
New research suggests that it is possible to suppress emotional autobiographical memories. The study published this month by psychologists at the University of ... Read More...