Researchers have overcome a major challenge to treating brain diseases by engineering an experimental molecular therapy that crosses the blood-brain barrier to reverse neurological lysosomal storage disease in mice. Credit: © pixologic / Fotolia Researchers have overcome a major challenge to...
Using the fMRI data, the researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of the Nucleus Accumbens, a key subcortical structure of the reward network. Image Credit: Flickr/Machrouh Med Sami Have you...
Over the past few years, scientists have faced a problem: They often cannot reproduce the results of experiments done by themselves or their peers. This "replication crisis" plagues fields from medicine to physics, and likely has many causes. But one...
Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human's long-term visual memory with how things move.Image Credit:Flickr/amy leonard As Superman flies over the city, people on the ground famously suppose they see a bird, then a plane, and...
Chemical recalibration of brain cells during sleep is crucial for learning, and sleeping pills may sabotage it. Image credit: Flickr/philip pelgrom Studying mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins have fortified evidence that a key purpose of sleep is to recalibrate the...
Neuroscientists at MIT have adapted their MRI scanner to make it easier to scan infants’ brains as the babies watch movies featuring different types of visual input. With the new technique, the team found that in some ways, the...
View Post UCLA’s research introduced mindfulness training early in the recovery process with encouraging results. Credit: Bär Baer/Flickr   Study shows training is particularly beneficial for addicts who have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety   Meditation and other mindfulness strategies may reduce the...
A team of researchers from McMaster University has discovered a new technique to examine how musicians intuitively coordinate with one another during a performance, silently predicting how each will express the music. The findings, published today in the journal Scientific...
Children's brains are far more engaged by their mother's voice than by voices of women they do not know, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found. Brain regions that respond more strongly to the mother's...
Financial traders are better at reading their 'gut feelings' than the general population -- and the better they are at this ability, the more successful they are as traders, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge. 'Gut...
A new research suggests that dogs may be even more like us than previously thought. Image credit: Flickr/Donnie Ray Jones Most dog owners will tell you they consider their beloved pets to be members of their families. Now new research...