Children understand numbers differently than adults. For kids, one and two seem much further apart then 101 and 102, because two is twice as big as one, and 102 is just a little bigger than 101. It's only after years of schooling that we're ...
BrainScope Company, Inc. today announced that it has received an award from GE and the National Football League (NFL) to further enhance its portable concussion assessment system by combining imaging biomarkers with its brainwave ...
Patients with depression have areas of reduced cortical thickness, with clear distinctions between those with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD), report US researchers. "Cortical thickness may prove to be a useful tool ...
German officials have identified one beef cow with a case of bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE), the fatal neurological disorder also known as “Mad Cow Disease.” This is Germany’s first reported case since 2009. The ...
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NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- New York researchers have identified a molecular mechanism by which cocaine alters the brain's reward circuits and causes addiction. Dr. Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn ...
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What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? Traditionally it is thought that age leads to a steady deterioration of brain function, but new research in Topics in Cognitive Science argues that older brains may take longer to process ...
The brain is a reclusive organ. Neurons the cells that make up the brain, nerves, and spinal cord communicate with each other using electrical pulses known as action potentials, but their interactions are complicated and hard to understand. ...
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Bing has barely any market share in China, but Microsoft hopes to change that in the next year or two by investing more resources into the local version of the search engine. The U.S. software giant is bringing more brain power to Bing ...
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Up to 30 percent of heart attack patients suffer a new heart attack because cardiologists are unable to control inflammation inside heart arteries — the process that leads to clots rupturing and causing myocardial infarction or ...
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What is ETMR/ETANTR and who does it affect? Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) are rare, deadly brain tumours that affect mainly children below the age of 4 years. There are 300 cases reported but probably there are many ...
Biologists have studied the functionality of a poorly understood category of genes, which produce long non-coding RNA molecules rather than proteins. Some of these genes have been conserved throughout evolution, and are present in 11 ...
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Researchers say they've discovered how the club drug Ecstasy acts on the brain, and their findings suggest the drug might be useful in treating anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. The study included 25 volunteers who underwent two ...
A thickening of the brain cortex associated with regular meditation or other spiritual or religious practice could be the reason those activities guard against depression - particularly in people who are predisposed to the disease, ...
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At the heart of brain diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease is protein misfolding, in which distorted proteins are unable to perform their normal functions. At present, there is ...
Free speech is perhaps our most cherished civil liberty. Without free speech -; especially free speech on key cultural, political and religious issues -; the United States is no longer the pluralistic republic envisioned by our Founders. ...
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