Learning magnets.
PhysOrg makes me fight an overwhelming urge to start raving about “thinking caps” and “memory machines” with their look at how transcranial magnetic stimulation… Read the rest “Learning magnets.”
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Sleep reminders.
Discovery makes me want to take a nap. Not because this research is boring, but because it suggests you can sleep your way to better recall:
… Read the rest “Sleep reminders.”After about 20 minutes, while the sleeping group’s
Conservative amygdalas are concerned.
The Telegraph reports on new brain studies that find a difference between “liberal” brains and “conservative” brains, equating the old-ways-are-best mindset… Read the rest “Conservative amygdalas are concerned.”
Hurt so good.
Yes. Well. New Scientist’s never-so-aptly-named “Short Sharp Science” blog revels in the discovery that the female orgasm is neurologically linked to pain:
… Read the rest “Hurt so good.”To get
Reading names, forgetting faces.
Forget your eyes. New Scientist (have I seen them somewhere before?) says all that reading is bad for your memory:
… Read the rest “Reading names, forgetting faces.”The scans firstly confirmed which regions of the brain are associated with
Sleights of Mind
This is more of a “heads up” than highlighting any particular discovery, but Medical News Today has a review of a fascinating collaboration between neuroscientists and stage… Read the rest “Sleights of Mind”
Look into my eyes. Deeply. Now, vote. Vote! VOTE!
Cue menacing laughter. But as FastCompany.com reveals, there’s really nothing funny about the extensive neurological research that goes into today’s political campaigns… Read the rest “Look into my eyes. Deeply. Now, vote. Vote! VOTE!”
Toward animal spirituality.
Whether or not you think a “soul” is a neurological phenomenon or something else, you might wonder, along with Discovery News, what it really means if animals have out-of-body-experiences… Read the rest “Toward animal spirituality.”
A lesson in FEAR.
PhysOrg reveals the anatomy of terror… in zebrafish:
… Read the rest “A lesson in FEAR.”A new study on the behavior of the zebrafish by Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has uncovered a key
Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.
This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not marine biologists – but scientists… Read the rest “Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.”
Addicted to heartbreak
The same circuit that controls your jonesin’ for just one more is also, the American Physiological Society says, in charge of your heartbreak:
… Read the rest “Addicted to heartbreak”The pain and anguish of rejection by
Gay men remember faces.
e! Science finds something besides choosing mates that gay men’s brains do differently – recognize faces:
… Read the rest “Gay men remember faces.”“Our results suggest that both gay men and heterosexual
Our salts aren’t the same.
Science Daily has new research that shows people sense salt differently. Genes play a role in what healthy food tastes like to supertasters:
… Read the rest “Our salts aren’t the same.”The research involved 87 carefully screened
Blue light smells like bananas.
That’s how Science Daily says life is like for fruit flies who’ve had their smell gene connected to the light gene:
… Read the rest “Blue light smells like bananas.”Normally animals avoid light. However, blue light simulates
Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770
Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock rifles.
As well as studying… Read the rest “Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770”