Medicine & TechnologyA new study reveals how our brain works and eventually learns skillful movements. Discover how lab rats’ little dance moves make us understand the method.
People with memory disorders like Alzheimer’s and dementia find hope after a study offered the new potential for novel treatments. Find out more about it here.
New research recently suggested that the role of Fragile X mental retardation protein or FMRP is more sophisticated compared to what was previously known. Essentially, looking at memory neurons in the mouse brain's hippocampus region, Rockefeller researchers discovered that the FMRP protein has two different tasks.
A new study recently focused on the half-dozen sub-regions of the surface layer of the brain, also called the cerebral cortex, as they are known to regulate how people are moving their mouth, lips, and tongue to form words and to play a role in processing what they hear they, themselves are saying.
New research by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT measured how waves are traveling in the prefrontal cortex of the brain during working memory to examine further the functional benefits that such a seeming motion may generate.
Scientists from the University of Rochester found evidence suggesting that healthy brain's are more productive and stable when multitasking and walking compared to sitting.
A new study supports the hypothesis that the brains of men and women are different after finding genes that are more active in one gender than the other which increases risk of brain disorders.
Scientists genetically modified a transparent jellyfish to make its neurons glow and they could study how it works to give new insights into human minds.
MRI scans showed that white matter brain lesions were more common in athletes of contact sports, such as American football. Years of playing are linked to neuropathological changes in the brain.
Brain-Computer interface company, Synchron received approval from the FDA for its clinical trials in the US. Specifically, the BCI developer will place its Stentrode device in the brain to help paralyzed patients.
A 53-year-old patient was the first to try the magnetic helmet developed to reduce brain tumors. The device proved effective as it indeed, shrank the tumor of this glioblastoma patient.
With voice silenced for years, an extensively paralyzed man was able to communicate, using technology that decodes electrical impulses produced by his brain each time he attempts to speak.
A new study examining earworms that penetrate the human brain when awake recently specified that their invasion in brains at night could affect one's sleep and staying asleep, as well.
Researchers recently revealed how incredible powers of learning play a vital role in one's played back memories. It has not been fully understood though, how the human brain absorbs new skills.
The largest longitudinal study on brain activation that underlies adolescent development reveals cognitive function maps that might help explain risk factors for mental and physical health challenges in adulthood.