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The teenage brain, Laurence Steinberg says, is like a car with a good accelerator but a weak brake. With powerful impulses under poor control, the likely result is a crash.
Crucial parts of brains of children with attention deficit disorder develop more slowly than other youngsters' brains, a phenomenon that earlier brain-imaging research missed, a new study says.
A brain was found in a bag near an apartment complex Tuesday morning, but it wasn't clear if it was human or animal, police said. It was discovered in an area next to a suburban Richmond apartment complex under construction and near a mall, Richmond police spokeswoman Karla Peters said.
A BRAIN implant is being created that should more reliably detect and forestall epileptic seizures.
THAT office job might be raising your blood pressure in more ways than one.
Simple surgery can turn a sexually passive female mouse into a rampant sex beast. The removal of an odour-sensing organ causes female mice to pursue and mount mice of either sex, and also show masculine mating behaviours such as pelvic thrusts.
Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
The software was able distinguish animals from non-animals in the same way that humans (Image: Thomas Serre / MIT)
A mere parasite controls the fate of rats and mice by hijacking the part of the brain that makes the rodents naturally fear cats, a new study shows.
Japan officials said the anti-flu drug Tamiflu should not be given to teenagers, after two boys aged 12 and 16 broke their legs jumping from the second floor of their houses.
A severely brain damaged woman has shown dramatic improvement in mental function after taking an insomnia drug, doctors say. The result may offer hope to millions of people living with serious brain damage.
Tooth brushing can induce seizures in people with epilepsy, a new case study of three people with the condition has found.
People with Down’s syndrome may be able to improve their memory by taking a supplement of Ginkgo tree extract, according to a promising mouse study.
Pregnant women who suffer from diabetes are more likely to have a child with memory problems, according to a new study.
The newly discovered “superhighway” (red tube) connects the ventricles (shown in light purple in the middle of the brain) with the tiny olfactory bulb (bottom left) (Image: Jonathan Westin)
Sleep deprivation can severely hamper the brain’s ability to learn, a new study demonstrates.
Activity patterns in the green regions of the brain scan revealed the subject’s covert intentions before he began to perform the calculation (Image: Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience)
New evidence has linked a commonly prescribed sleep medication with bizarre behaviours, including a case in which a woman painted her front door in her sleep.
A novel treatment can rescue the brain function of mice afflicted with a form of mad cow disease, a new study suggests.
The long-suspected link between Alzheimer's disease and abnormalities in the way amyloid protein is processed in the brain has been confirmed at last.
A "data cable" made from stretched nerve cells could someday help connect computers to the human nervous system. The modified cells should form better connections with human tissue than the metal electrodes currently used for purposes such as remotely controlling prosthetics (see Brain implant enables mind over matter).
People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language, Canadian scientists said on Friday.
Brief sessions of brain exercise can have long-lasting benefits for elderly people, helping them stay mentally fit for at least five years, one of the most rigorous tests of the "use-it-or-lose-it" theory suggests.
People with many younger siblings are more likely to develop brain tumours, according to a new study. Those with four or more siblings have twice the risk of brain cancer compared to only-children, the study found.
Whales may share our kind of intelligence, researchers say after discovering brain cells previously found only in humans and other primates.
It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening.
Well-designed studies suggest several ways to improve the brain's viability.
In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind.
We all have ideas of helping some deserving people with something really special, and there are so many things I would want to give, starting with my own children, like the gift of compassion, perhaps? For my best friend Gwellian in Wales, it would have to be the gift of a fabulo …
Google's patented and powerful search algorithm, PageRank, may mimic the way the human brain retrieves information.An interesting idea - it would be amazing if Serge and Brin worked out how the brain works, without meaning to :)
Jack Pulaski was undaunted as he climbed a ladder to hang Christmas lights on the peak of his garage in Algonquin five years ago, despite warnings from his family that he could get hurt.
''In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind.
Scientists believe they have located a new brain area essential for good memory - the "irrelevance filter". People who are good at remembering things, even with distractions, have more activity in the basal ganglia on brain scans, the Swedish team found.
There's an avalanche of neuroscience to support that (physical) exercise is good for the brain. That's hopeful news for many who worry that growing old may mean losing their minds.
Scientists believe they have located a new brain area essential for good memory - the "irrelevance filter". People who are good at remembering things, even with distractions, have more activity in the basal ganglia on brain scans, the Swedish team found.
I confess that I am incapable of bypassing any news story that couples "mist" and "Pig-brain" in its headline. Peculiar yes, but then so is the fact that inhalation of porcine neural tissue may result in debilitating nerve disorders.
Scientists may have discovered why we tend to slow down mentally as we age. Harvard University used medical imaging techniques to compare the brains of 93 healthy people aged 18 to 93.
Enjoy dark chocolate, have plenty of sex, eat cold meats and fish for breakfast and you could boost your brain power, say the authors of a new book.
PLENTY of sex, dark chocolate and cold meats are the latest keys to boosting your brain power, according to a new book.
hey, this isn't Digg OK? oops sorry, inner dialouge escaped briefly there.
Researchers at the Toronto, CA Centre for Addiction and Mental Health think that pedophilia might be the result of faulty connections in the brain.
Genes that can be pinned to intelligence are proving frustratingly hard to find, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.
Scientists in Switzerland working with IBM researchers have shown that their computer simulation of the neocortical column, arguably the most complex part of a mammal's brain, appears to behave like its biological counterpart.
Scans have shown that paedophilia may be the result of faulty connections in the brain. Researchers used sophisticated MRI scans to compare the brains of paedophiles and non-sexual criminals.
The Rhode Island Department of Health has fined Rhode Island Hospital $50,000 after a third doctor performed brain surgery on the wrong side of a patient's head....
A FIVE-year-old boy who pulled out a deer antler that had driven through his eye socket and into his brain has made a full recovery.
An 18 year old teenager in India survived his head being skewered by a metal pole in a bus crash. The crash push ed the four foot pole through his skull at the forehead and just missed his spine. The teen said it struck his head and into the seat, trapping him.
Researchers at New York University's Clinical Cancer Center and several other U.S. medical colleges believe they may have found a breakthrough vaccine to treat the most deadly form of brain cancer.
According to a study published in the November issue of the journal Neurology, the brain's cortex is thicker in people with migraines than in other people. This is big news insofar as it supports treating migraine disease as a neurological condition.
An interesting test of right-versus-left-brainness, with a short description of each side's functions. It's fun.
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