New study offers insight into causes of Autism

Scientists are now a step closer to understanding how abnormalities in brain development might lead to autism and other behavioral disorders. Research into Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic condition that is the leading known cause of autism, has revealed that critical phases in the brain’s development may be mistimed in people with the condition. The [...]

HIV infection prematurely ages human Brain

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection or the treatments used to control it are prematurely aging the brain, a group of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California-San Diego have found. Blood flow in the brains of HIV patients is reduced to levels normally seen in uninfected patients [...]

Scientists finds a way to measure human Brain activity!

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is widely used by physicians and scientists to study brain function and to diagnose neurological disorders. However, it has remained largely unknown whether the electrodes on the head give an exact view of what is happening inside the brain. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have [...]

Men and Women May Respond Differently to Danger : Study

Men and women respond differently to positive and negative stimuli, the findings of new a study presented recently at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) suggests. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to study brain activation, the researchers found that men may direct more attention to sensory aspects of [...]

Hypothermia research to help Brain injured athletes

Athletes who suffer serious or multiple concussions may benefit from ground-breaking research being conducted by scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. The scientists are developing a surgical technique that involves hypothermia in specific regions of the brain. Called ‘Therapeutic hypothermia’, the medical treatment lowers a patient’s temperature in order [...]

Monkey Brain can Signal the Desire to Explore

DURHAM, N.C. – Like human brain, monkey brain also sends signals to make strategic decisions. Now, using brain scans in monkeys, Duke University Medical Center researchers are able to predict when monkeys will switch from exploiting a known resource to exploring their options.
“Humans aren’t the only animals who wonder if the grass is greener elsewhere, [...]

Scientists finds site of Alcohol’s action in the Brain

Alcohol’s inebriating effects are familiar to everyone. But the molecular details of alcohol’s impact on brain activity remain a mystery. A new study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies brings us closer to understanding how alcohol alters the way brain cells work.
Their findings, published in the current advance online edition of Nature [...]

Scientists Captures Image of Memories Being Made!

A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), McGill University and University of California, Los Angeles has captured an image of memories being made in human brain! The study published in Science, is important for understanding how memory traces are created and the ability to monitor it in real [...]

Researchers finds the Source of Glioma

Glioma is the most common and most serious form of brain tumors that affect adult humans. Till now scientists were not sure about which specific type of cell in the brain is the source of the tumor. But now a new study by researchers at Uppsala University, findings of which was published in the scientific [...]

Men and Women appreciates Beauty differently

It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But now, science says that it is actually in the brain of the beholder! The findings of a study suggests that men and women use their brains differently and they have different ways of appreciating the objects of beauty.
During the study, professor Francisco [...]

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