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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

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·February 28, 2012·1 min read

Molecular Duo Dictate Weight and Energy Levels

Yale University researchers have discovered a key cellular mechanism that may help the brain control how much we eat, what...

·February 23, 2012·3 min read

Memory Formation Triggered by Stem Cell Development

Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain...

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·February 21, 2012·5 min read

A Step Forward In Effort to Regenerate Damaged Nerves

The carnage evident in disasters like car wrecks or wartime battles is oftentimes mirrored within the bodies of the people...

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·February 17, 2012·3 min read

Brain Differences Seen at 6 Months in Infants Who Develop Autism

Researchers have found significant differences in brain development in infants as young as six months old who later develop autism,...

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·February 16, 2012·5 min read

New Molecular Map to Guide Development of New Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis and Other Diseases

A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, collaborating with members of the drug discovery company Receptos, has created...

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·February 15, 2012·3 min read

Drinking Alcohol Shrinks Critical Brain Regions in Genetically Vulnerable Mice

New evidence that receptors for brain’s ‘reward’ chemical provide protection. Brain scans of two strains of mice imbibing significant quantities...

·February 14, 2012·2 min read

People Forage for Memories in the Same Way Birds Forage for Berries

Humans move between ‘patches’ in their memory using the same strategy as bees flitting between flowers for pollen or birds...

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·February 7, 2012·3 min read

Molecular Path from Internal Clock to Cells Controlling Rest and Activity Revealed

The molecular pathway that carries time-of-day signals from the body’s internal clock to ultimately guide daily behavior is like a...

·February 6, 2012·2 min read

Working Memory and the Brain

Visual working memory not as specialized in the brain as visual encoding, study finds. Researchers have long known that specific...

Electrophysiology Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·January 31, 2012·5 min read

Scientists Decode Brain Waves to Eavesdrop on What We Hear

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...

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·January 31, 2012·3 min read

Short-term Memory is Based on Synchronized Brain Oscillations

Scientists have now discovered how different brain regions cooperate during short-term memory. Holding information within one’s memory for a short...

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·January 30, 2012·4 min read

Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to...

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