Wireless ‘pacemaker for the brain’ could be new standard treatment for neurological disorders
A new neurostimulator developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at…
Bees can count with just four nerve cells in their brains
Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to researchers…
Can Stimulating the Brain Treat Chronic Pain?
Neuroscientists and chronic pain experts at the UNC School of Medicine used a weak alternating current of electricity to target…
Is zinc the link to how we think? Some evidence, and a word of warning
In biology, structure equals function. The protein machines that do virtually all of the myriad biochemical jobs within every living…
RESEARCHERS FIND INHIBITING ONE PROTEIN DESTROYS TOXIC CLUMPS SEEN IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
WASHINGTON (November 14, 2018) — A defining feature of Parkinson’s disease is the clumps of alpha-synuclein protein that accumulate in…
Briefly Taking Baby from his Mother Alters Adult Brain
When a baby is taken from its mother for even a brief period early in life, this traumatic event significantly…
Music activates regions of the brain spared by Alzheimer’s disease
“People with dementia are confronted by a world that is unfamiliar to them, which causes disorientation and anxiety” said Jeff…