High-Speed Microscope Captures Fleeting Brain Signals
New techniques allow tracking millisecond voltage changes, calcium signaling in awake mice
Neurobiology
Study: Scents Alter How Memories Are Processed in the Brain
New research reveals how much power scents have in triggering memories—and the potential for odor to be used as a tool to treat memory-related mood disorders
Daily Avocado Consumption Improves Attention in Overweight, Obese Individuals
An avocado a day improves the ability to focus attention for overweight or obese adults, Illinois researchers found in a new study
Scientists Create Tool to Detect Genes Associated with Psychiatric, Brain Diseases
Researchers created H-MAGMA, a computational tool that improves current technology used to link non-coding genetic variants to the genes associated with diseases through genome-wide association
Study May Help Resolve Bitter Debate over Low-Cal Sweeteners
Do low-calorie sweeteners promote the development of diabetes and obesity? New research may help resolve the conflicting findings of recent studies
Researchers Were Not Right about Left Brains
Brain imprints on cranial bones from great apes and humans refute the long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique
New Insight into How Cannabidiol Takes Effect in the Brains of People with Psychosis
New study provides greater understanding into which areas of the brain CBD targets
Possible Alzheimer's Breakthrough Suggested
Researchers say newly found protein is bio-marker for disease; suggest suppression of 'aggregatin' could lead to future treatments to slow Alzheimer's progression
Blue Light Can Help Heal Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
The Department of Defense has a vested interest in the new University of Arizona-led research, but the results have implications for civilians as well