We can watch your mind changing. This is what a decision looks like.
Science Daily goes deep, deep into our innermost selves and reveals what a brain looks like the moment a mind changes: The findings result from […]
neurology
Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.
Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth: […]
Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.
Science Daily reports on University of North Carolina research that shows transcranial stimulation, the fascinating new tech that uses mild DC current to “switch on” […]
New Alzheimer’s hope?
The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it: Researchers at Duke announced that […]
Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)
Popular Science plunges into a study in The Lancet examining the possible neurological benefit of being obese: The team of British researchers looked at records […]
The ethics of altering your children’s brains.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is asking the tough questions about what… and when… we should be doing to kids’ brains with electromagnetism: As the intervention […]
That brain-controlling cat parasite? We’ve figured out how it works….
Science Daily plunges into the fun, fun research into how toxoplasmosis pulls your strings: The parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, which has infected an estimated one […]
A new memory will replace a similar memory: the anatomy of forgetting
BBC looks into our brains, watching scans that show how one memory can literally replace a different, but similar one: “People are used to thinking […]
Full body transplants.
New Scientist seems to be going a little around the bend with transplants this week (witness hand enthusiasm), especially when it comes to the prospect […]
A rat bustier or a rat camisole for a little rat naughtiness.
LiveScience examines how and why rats are aroused by tiny vests: In an unusual study, researchers allowed virgin male rats to have sex with females […]
Dumb chemicals drop babies’ IQs.
Science Daily reveals that two kinds of phthalates – chemicals found in ordinary stuff like dryer sheets, soap, lipstick and vinyl fabrics – can drop […]
Why menthol makes it harder to quit.
New Scientist reveals how menthol – something originally added to cigarettes to soothe smokers’ throats – actually makes cigarettes more ‘cigarette-y’: People who smoke menthol […]
Worried? Forgetful? Is there mold in your walls?
Science News breaks some scary news to the fungus-phobic and those of us living in old buildings or moist climates. Researchers at CUNY have discovered […]
Here’s why sleep affects your memory (and how you can change it).
NPR goes, ahem, under the covers to trace the brain chemistry of sleep: “One of the most profound effects of a night of sleep is […]
Adoptees’ “lost language” is still wired into their brains.
CBC has more on a study that finds kids adopted from China in infancy still have native speakers’ brain responses to spoken Chinese – even […]