Scientists Use ‘Optogenetics’ to Control Reward-Seeking Behavior
The findings suggest that therapeutics targeting the path between two critical brain regions, the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, represent potential treatm... 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.
Researchers Can Predict Future Actions from Human Brain Activity
Brain research predicts premeditated actionsBringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers at The University of Western Ontario from The Centre... Read More...
Researchers Report Progress Using iPS Cells to Reverse Blindness
Researchers have used cutting-edge stem cell technology to correct a genetic defect present in a rare blinding disorder, another step on a promising path that m... Read More...
Technique for Letting Brain Talk to Computers Now Tunes in Speech
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have adapted brain-computer interfaces to listen to regions of the brain that control speech. ... Read More...
Cerebellum Grey Matter Volume Used to Predict General Intelligence
Researchers believe they have found a link between the volume of one's cerebellum and general intelligence.... Read More...
First Clinical Trial of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy in the World Begins
Human embryonic stem cell therapy is being tried on a human for the first time in a new clinical trial. This is the first clinical trial of its kind in the worl... Read More...
Reading P300 Brain Waves to Predict Terrorist Attacks
Reading P300 brain waves of people concealing information allows researchers to reliably predict the concealed information.... Read More...