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Javier DeFelipe from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain, together with his team, led a study on brain, which helped indicate the fact that differences in thinking between the two genders come from the synapses. As they say, the variations in synapse density is a factor that attests the different way men... |
9 September 2008
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Believe it or not, worms can calculate their way to food through a process roughly equivalent to a derivative in calculus. Unfortunately, humans and other animals are also able to do so, although there is still not enough evidence to support this claim. Basically, worms are able to locate food by tasting the environm... |
24 July 2008
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The fact that a patient's mood can affect the way cancer tumors evolve in time is far from being a myth anymore, it's a certified fact. Scientific studies showed more than once that patients with an overall calm attitude towards the disease they are fighting have a better chance of decreasing the rate the c... |
11 June 2008
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This drug is better known as an antidepressant. But Prozac has been found by a new study published in the journal Science to restore old brain cells to a more plastic youthful stage. "The work raises the distant prospect that it could be used to treat other conditions caused by malfunction of brain cells. One of them... |
21 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Some people really have a problem with telling rapidly which is right and which is left (researches proved that women more than men), but your brain doesn't. Your left brain and right brain are quite different. The right brain hemisphere is linked mostly to emotional functions and music feeling, while the left h... |
4 April 2008
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In the end, your personality is made of thoughts. But how do thoughts look like? A team of researchers of Carnegie Mellon University has just tried to answer to this is in a research published in PLoS One. The study was made on 12 subjects enveloped in an MRI scanner, who were presented line drawings of 10 different ... |
7 January 2008
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Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by a virus that enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the gut. When reaching the nervous system, it causes sudden total paralysis. When the virus gets into the brain and spine, it causes fever, exhaustion, headache, vomits, neck and extremities pain. Motor n... |
17 December 2007
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A few months ago few would have agreed that the adult brain keeps on forming new brain cells. But after researches confirmed the discovery first made in 1998, now they have at their disposal a technology to view stem cells in the brains of living animals (humans included) allowing the researchers to watch neurogenes... |
20 November 2007
05:22 GMT |
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Memory is still one of the most mysterious processes of the brain. Now, another piece in the complicated puzzle has been located: while sleeping, the reactivated memories of real-time experiences are reviewed in high "thought speed", 6-7 times more than in wake time, by the brain. Memory is kept in modules in the bra... |
19 November 2007
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We know that we are born with a potential for intelligence and intelligence must be managed. A 60-year-old Scottish research made on 70,000 11-year-old children could explain the way lifestyle affects intelligence. Smoking, obesity, sedentarism and bad food could lead not only to physical diseases, but also to a dumb... |
15 November 2007
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Morphine, heroine and other opioid drugs are the best known painkillers, but they come with a high risk: in many patients they provoke addiction, the body requiring gradually increasing amounts to ease pain. A new study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and carried on in rats revealed th... |
15 November 2007
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1. The brain cortex, with a thickness of just a few millimeters, contains 75 % of the brain cells, their number being between 10 to 100 billion. This area harbors our "mind", thoughts, personality, records, feelings and consciousness. The link between the two hemispheres of the cortex is done by the corpus callosum, ... |
3 November 2007
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Eventually, amphetamines destroy your teeth. Paradoxically, in such cases, dentists hold the secret of our salvation: and that's lidocaine, a drug usually employed to numb your gums. Lidocaine shuts off insula, a brain nucleus controlling drug addiction, and targeting the insula's activity could one day fre... |
29 October 2007
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'Thinking with the heart' and 'hot blooded' can get a new real meaning now. Besides, ancient Greeks, like Aristotle, were convinced that the circulatory system dictates thoughts and emotions. The new Hemo-Neural Hypothesis, brought forth by a team led by Christopher Moore, a principle investigator... |
18 October 2007
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We are addicted to the bone to mobile phones, but a new research comes with a warning for our technological world: the regular use of a mobile phone over more than a decade can raise the risk of cancer. The long-term users were found to have a double chance of developing a malignant tumor on the side of the brain wh... |
8 October 2007
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A toddler may seem a little more than a vegetable. Even more when he/she is sleeping. But while the little baby is slightly snoring, in his/her brain there is a lot of activity, as found by a new research. Other recent investigations had discovered in adult brains the existence of 10 so-called resting-state networks,... |
21 September 2007
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It is said that our brain can organize itself only during our childhood, when it forms connections and pathways between different groups of neurons (brain cells that form the gray matter of the brain). The plasticity of the young brains enables them to change or adapt. This is how children struck by polio can still w... |
13 September 2007
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We do not possess a memory center: this ability is spread over most of the brain areas. A new review made by Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine and Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico on 37 imaging studies has revealed that human intelligence, too."Genetic research has demonstrated that intell... |
12 September 2007
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Next time when you call somebody "a worm", you must know you're talking about a long lost cousin. Scientists have found strong proof that the hypothalamus and other hormone-secreting brain centers are much older than previously thought and probably have their origins in the multifunctional neurons of the last co... |
6 August 2007
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At last, you went out with that sexy bomb and suddenly that crazy itch has started. You feel like scratching anywhere…on the table, chair, floor. Well, researchers finally found that a mere protein is behind this shameful sensation of yours. A team led by Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen at Washington University School of Medicine... |
26 July 2007
07:11 GMT |
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The invisible villain attaches to your brain cells while you're smoking. But how does the state of high invade a smoker's brain? It appears that sugar is the cause. A new research made at University of Southern California reveals the role of sugar as the hinge that opens a gate in the cell membrane and info... |
23 July 2007
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Some people really seem to live on four neurons: one for pissing, one for pooping, one for eating and one for sex. But the reality can sometimes leave us speechless. A French team got really stunt when they found a 44 year-old man with an unusually tiny brain, still able to live an entirely normal life despite this. ... |
20 July 2007
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What would we be without our memories? Our brain's capacity of recalling the past is a mystery. Why and what do we remember? Where are the memories stored? Today, the scientists - by using modern technologies - are starting to find some answers. Our memories are not cell groups nor information bits susceptible t... |
14 July 2007
05:56 GMT |
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Exercising means more than strong muscles and bones: it means a much better health. Exercising fights against impotence, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, bone diseases, arthritis, cancer, while boosting mood, memory and longevity. Physical exercises are also known to have an effect similar to that of antide... |
29 June 2007
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The brain is constantly working; even when we sleep, neural waves cross our brain, inducing fluctuating, unstable patterns. These waves make 98 % of the brain activity, but many consider them just background. A new research has come to explain their role and what the resting brain does. "Some people see the brain in ... |
5 June 2007
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You may believe that monkeys are capable of only cheap tricks and imitation, but a new research on rhesus monkeys revealed they can handle statistics...Many students cannot...The monkeys could accurately determine which of two behaviors is more likely to reward them by summing together a series of probabilistic facto... |
4 June 2007
06:24 GMT |
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Robocop is on the way of being produced. Or perhaps human brained robots are. A new research has revealed that it's possible to store multiple rudimentary memories in a culture of live neurons. The research made by Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob from the Tel-Aviv University further explains how our brain store... |
30 May 2007
03:44 GMT |
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Ancient Greeks employed magnetized metal rings against arthritis. In the 15th century, the famous physician Paracelsus thought that magnetic energies induce self-healing of the body. In the Middle Ages, magnets were employed against pain, gout, arthritis, poisoning, respiratory problems, circulatory problems, rheumat... |
24 May 2007
06:54 GMT |
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A common concept says that neurons cannot divide.But recent findings show that at least some of the brain regions can form new neurons and in "critical periods" the new neurons in adult brains display the same learning capacity as those in developing brains. These discoveries could one day lead to therapies against n... |
24 May 2007
04:27 GMT |
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SF concepts of robots thinking like humans or brain-like functioning computers have just made their first steps. A team has managed to simulate half of the complicated way of functioning of a mouse brain cortex on a supercomputer. The "cortical simulator" was achieved with the BlueGene L supercomputer. Previous small... |
1 May 2007
06:42 GMT |
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One dose and you are hooked up. Researchers have been investigating for a long time the powerful effect of the opioid drugs, like morphine or heroin, in search of a treatment for addiction. A new Brown University research found morphine to stop the synapse-strengthening in the brain, a phenomenon called long-term pot... |
26 April 2007
08:49 GMT |
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You may hear continuously that you do not use your brain enough. For some it can be obvious: they use a neuron to eat, one to have sex, one to s**t and one to piss. But on a scientific level, a new research found that we really could be using just 20 % of the neurons in our midbrain to form memories. Researchers at ... |
20 April 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Happiness could be found in the mud ...A mixed research team from the University of Bristol and University College London has discovered that bacteria found in the soil turned on a group of neurons that synthesize the brain chemical serotonin, named also "the happiness hormone". When the researchers treated lab mice ... |
10 April 2007
08:59 GMT |
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