News articles tagged with 'neural'
Cocaine images capture motivated attention among users
— 4 Apr 2011 19:09 | HealthScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have conducted the most comprehensive study to date of how cocaine users…
Predicting serious drug side effects before they occur
— 29 Mar 2011 17:22 | HealthAll medications have side-effects from common aspirin to herbal remedies and from standard anticancer drugs to experimental immunosuppressants. However, predicting important side effects,…
A new look at the adolescent brain: It's not all emotional chaos
— 10 Mar 2011 18:41 | HealthAdolescence is often described as a tumultuous time, where heightened reactivity and impulsivity lead to negative behaviours like substance abuse and unsafe sexual activity. Previous…
Differences in mammalian brain structure and genitalia linked to specific DNA regions in new study
— 10 Mar 2011 17:38 | HealthHumans are clearly different from chimpanzees. The question is, why? According to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, it may boil down in part to what we don't…
Using EEGs to diagnose autism spectrum disorders in infants
— 22 Feb 2011 23:10 | HealthA computational physicist and a cognitive neuroscientist at Children's Hospital Boston have come up with the beginnings of a noninvasive test to evaluate an infant's autism risk. It…
What a rat can tell us about touch
— 18 Feb 2011 18:20 | BiologyIn her search to understand one of the most basic human senses - touch - Mitra Hartmann turns to what is becoming one of the best studied model systems in neuroscience: the whiskers…
Chinks in the brain circuitry make some more vulnerable to anxiety
— 11 Feb 2011 16:54 | HealthWhy do some people fret over the most trivial matters while others remain calm in the face of calamity? Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified two different…
Brain 'network maps' reveal clue to mental decline in old age
— 8 Feb 2011 17:00 | HealthThe human brain operates as a highly interconnected small-world network, not as a collection of discrete regions as previously believed, with important implications for why many of…
Resolved to quit smoking?
— 1 Feb 2011 20:30 | HealthBrain scans showing neural reactions to pro-health messages can predict if you'll keep that resolution to quit smoking more accurately than you yourself can. That's according to a new…
Functional boost for magnetic resonance imaging
— 19 Jan 2011 16:50 | HealthOver the last few years, researchers have used a type of brain scanning, known as functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI, to help them map changes in blood flow in the brain and…