Did a good sense of smell give us an evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our sense of smell may have been as important as language in helping to give us, modern humans, an evolutionary advantage over other human relatives such as the Neanderthals, scientists report ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Flash of fresh insight by electrical brain stimulation
Are we on the verge of being able to stimulate the brain to see the world anew - an electric thinking cap? Research by Richard Chi and Allan Snyder from the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney suggests that this ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2011 |
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From touchpad to thought-pad? Research shows that digital images can be manipulated with the mind
Move over, touchpad screens: New research funded in part by the National Institutes of Health shows that it is possible to manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only the mind.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Researchers make waves into what awakens epilepsy
A University of Alberta research team has discovered a potential new trigger for epileptic seizures that strike during deep sleep.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Name recall get a big shock
It's an experience shared by everyone: You run into someone you know, but his or her name escapes you. Now, Temple psychologist Ingrid Olson has found a way to improve the recall of proper names.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Study shows how technology may improve treatment for children with brain cancer
A study presented today at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) shows that children with brain tumors who undergo radiation therapy (the application of X-rays to kill cancerous ...
Jul 18, 2010 |
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Dementia takes away the meaning of flavors
Flavour is literally the spice of life and for many people life without the pleasures of the table would be unthinkable. Yet just this aspect of everyday life is vulnerable in certain degenerative dementias, with patients ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 10, 2010 |
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Researchers find how brain hears the sound of silence (w/ Video)
A team of University of Oregon researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain's auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists discover brain area responsible for fear of losing money
Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology and their colleagues have tied the human aversion to losing money to a specific structure in the brain-the amygdala.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Dementia linked to high blood pressure years earlier
High blood pressure may put women at greater risk for dementia later in life by increasing white matter abnormalities in the brain, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 12, 2010 |
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3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world's most famous amnesic
H.M., the well-known amnesic patient whose condition helped scientists understand memory and memory impairment, died a year ago at the age of 82. H.M. (whose full name, Henry Gustav Molaison, was disclosed ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Alzheimer's Gene Alters Brain Function in Young Adults
(PhysOrg.com) -- The gene most closely linked to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease affects brain activity in young adults -- much earlier in life than previously reported -- according to researchers at Duke ...
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Fragile period of childhood brain development could underlie epilepsy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A form of partial epilepsy associated with auditory and other sensory hallucinations has been linked to the disruption of brain development during early childhood, according to a study led ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 23, 2009 |
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Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them
Pictures paint concepts of a thousand words- now, for the first time, scientists studying the brain have worked out how words paint concepts in our minds.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Measuring brain atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a fully automated procedure called Volumetric MRI - which measures the "memory centers" of the brain and compares them to expected size ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 16, 2009 |
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