FeaturedNeuroethics·November 7, 2013Researcher Seeks to Help Those Who Can’t Speak for ThemselvesNon-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
FeaturedNeuroethicsNeurology·July 16, 2013Potential Neurological Treatments Often Advance to Clinical Trials on Shaky EvidenceA 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
FeaturedNeuroethicsNeurology·August 20, 2012Deep 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
FeaturedNeuroethicsOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·August 6, 2012Pupil Dilation Reveals Sexual OrientationResearchers 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
ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroethics·July 26, 2012Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With LightResearchers 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
FeaturedNeuroethicsNeurology·July 17, 2012Poisoning from Industrial Compounds Can Cause Similar Effects to ALSResearchers 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
FeaturedNeuroethicsNeurology·July 10, 2012H1N1 Vaccine Associated With Small but Significant Risk of Guillain-Barre SyndromeAnalysis of recent H1N1 vaccination data indicated a small but significant risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome following influenza A(H1N1) vaccinations. Read More
FeaturedNeuroethicsPsychology·June 22, 2012Remembering to ForgetNew research suggests that it is possible to suppress emotional autobiographical memories. The study published this month by psychologists at... Read More
ElectrophysiologyNeuroethics·June 4, 2012Neuroscientists Explore Innovative Way to Help People Who are BlindWhen people close their eyes, they can form mental images of things that exist only in their minds. Neuroscientists studying... Read More
GeneticsNeuroethics·April 25, 2012New Embryonic Stem Cell Line Will Aid Research on Nerve ConditionSecond U-M stem cell line now publicly available to help researchers find treatments for nerve condition. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease line made... Read More
FeaturedNeuroethicsNeuroscience·April 13, 2012Brain Network Reveals DisordersResearchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich identify a new method of unerringly detecting the presence of pathophysiological... Read More
FeaturedNeuroethicsNeuroscience·April 11, 2012Data Mining Opens the Door to Predictive NeuroscienceResearchers at the EPFL have discovered rules that relate the genes that a neuron switches on and off, to the... Read More
