Jul 17, 2013 by News Staff

Biologists led by Dr Don Arnold and Dr Richard Roberts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, have released an astonishing picture of...

Jun 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new small study of healthy women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics has provided the first evidence that changing the bacterial...

Jun 5, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, the width of blood vessels in the retina – a light-sensitive layer at the...

May 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Australian scientists have created the most detailed atlas of the mouse brain, a development that is helping in the fight against brain disease. 3D surface...

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...

Feb 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from the University of Bergen and the University of Vienna have studied a simple, brainless sea anemone to learn more about the evolutionary...

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study in mice led by Prof Bo Li of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory examines how fear responses are learned, controlled, and memorized. The findings...

Jan 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of neuroscientists has created a detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence, the ability to process emotional information. Prof...

Nov 27, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A new study published in the journal Science reveals for the first time the birth timing and embryonic origin of elusive brain cells called chandelier...

Oct 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of British scientists, the interaction between the region of the brain that processes sound – the auditory cortex – and...

Oct 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...

Jun 13, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists has shown that brain levels of serotonin, the happy hormone, are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life. E....

Apr 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of researchers has found that a high intake of flavonoid-rich berries, such as strawberries and blueberries, over time, can delay...

Apr 24, 2012 by James Freeman

A new study by scientists at the University of Cambridge has confirmed that brains of chronic cocaine users age dramatically faster than their non-drug-using...

Sep 10, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing...

Aug 24, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a...