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09/30/2015
The Stigma of Mental Illness By: Caitlin Beddows, Posted on: September 28, 2015 We are excited to announce that the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Second Edition is now available on ScienceDirect! This essential encyclopedia tackles arguably one of the biggest issues facing modern society, mental health.
09/30/2015
Dulling pain may also reduce empathy Brain pathways for physical pain and empathy overlap
09/30/2015
Speeding Up Reconstruction of the Connectome Researchers have developed new software that speeds up connectome analysis by up-to ten times.
09/30/2015
How Neuropsin Allows The Retina to Set its Own Biological Rhythm A new study sheds light on how the retina sets its own biological rhythm using a novel light-sensitive pigment called neuropsin.
09/30/2015
Study Identifies 65 Genes Involved in Autism A new study reports researchers have identified 65 genes that play a crucial role in autism spectrum disorder.
09/30/2015
Nanowire Provides Hope for Improved Brain Implants Researchers have developed a new type of nanowire material that may improve both retinal and brain implants.
09/30/2015
NIH-funded researchers have produced neural tissue chips with many features of a developing human brain that can do a better job of predicting which chemical compounds will be safe in humans. Keep reading on the NIH Director's Blog: directorsblog.nih.gov/2015/09/29/if-i-only-had-a-brain-tissue-chips-predict-neurotoxicity/
09/25/2015
How Hunger Controlling Neurons Regulate Bone Mass According to a new study, AgRP neurons not only control huger, they also regulate bone mass.
09/25/2015
Pinpointing The Precise Moment Our Brains Convert Speech Sounds to Meaning A new study reports fine-grained speech processing details can be extracted from electrical brain signals measured through the scalp.
09/25/2015
How Fast Do Your Nerve Cells Talk? Researchers engineered chimeras to tune the speed of neurotransmitter release.
09/25/2015
Brain consolidates memory with three-step brainwave Our long-term memory is consolidated when we sleep. Short-term memory traces in the hippocampus, an area deep in the brain, are then relocated to more outer parts of the brain. An international team of neuroscientists, among who Mathilde Bonnefond and Til Ole Bergmann from the Donders Institute at R…
09/24/2015
Neural Taskmaster: How the Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Keeps Us on Task Researchers report on the important role the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex plays in keeping us on task.