People who play video games for even a small amount of time have superior perception and attention skills to those who don't play at all, new research suggests.
A study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University found participants who played...
Anyone who has ever put a small child to bed or drifted off in a gently swaying hammock will know that a rocking motion makes getting to sleep seem easier. Now, two new studies reported in Current Biology on...
FOXP2, a gene implicated in affecting speech and language, is held up as a textbook example of positive selection on a human-specific trait. But in a paper published August 2 in the journal Cell, researchers challenge this finding. Their...
Two Aplysia sensory neurons with synaptic contacts on the same motor neuron in culture after isolation from the nervous system of Aplysia. The motor neuron has been injected with a fluorescent molecule that blocks the activity of a specific...
While the broad architecture and organization of the human brain is universal, new research shows how the differences between how people reimagine common scenarios can be observed in brain activity and quantified. These unique neurological signatures could ultimately be...
Hallucinations are spooky and, fortunately, fairly rare. But, a new study suggests, the real question isn't so much why some people occasionally experience them. It's why all of us aren't hallucinating all the time.
In the study, Stanford University School...
Unlocking the mysteries of our senses: An NIH Study shows that two young patients with a mutation in the PIEZO2 have problems with touch and proprioception, or body awareness.Credit: Bönnemann Lab, NIH/NINDS, Bethesda, MD
NIH study of rare genetic disorder...
Kathleen Gustafson, a research associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center's Hoglund Brain Imaging Center (right), with a mother-to-be in the fetal biomagnetometer.
Credit: KU News Service photo
A month before they are born,...
It has often been claimed that humans learn language using brain components that are specifically dedicated to this purpose. Now, new evidence strongly suggests that language is in fact learned in brain systems that are also used for many...
One month old newly born neurons in the dentate gyrus of the adult mouse hippocampus were labeled by injection of retrovirus expressing green-fluorescent-protein (GFP). The photomicrograph shows GFP expressing new neurons and the nuclei of the granule cell layer...
Single microglia cell in the brain. DNA in the cell body is labeled in blue, and in red and green are different proteins expressed only by microglia which show the elaborate processes of these cells. Credit: MUHC
A type of...
