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
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
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
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
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
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
Analysis of recent H1N1 vaccination data indicated a small but significant risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome following influenza A(H1N1) vaccinations. Read More
New research suggests that it is possible to suppress emotional autobiographical memories. The study published this month by psychologists at... Read More
When people close their eyes, they can form mental images of things that exist only in their minds. Neuroscientists studying... Read More
Second U-M stem cell line now publicly available to help researchers find treatments for nerve condition. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease line made... Read More
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich identify a new method of unerringly detecting the presence of pathophysiological... Read More
Researchers at the EPFL have discovered rules that relate the genes that a neuron switches on and off, to the... Read More
