Neuroscience

13+ hour, 31+ min ago   (996+ words) Falling asleep and going under anesthesia both reduce consciousness. LSD and psilocybin do something else: perception gets more intense, not less, and the person usually stays awake. Inside the brain, neuroscientists have suspected the two kinds of altered state might…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago   (998+ words) More than 1,000 brain microproteins were missing from the protein map, and at one Alzheimer's gene the tiny version is what cells make. Nearly every cell in the body works from the same genetic code, building proteins out of the parts…...

9+ hour, 19+ min ago   (358+ words) Video games are often discussed as entertainment, but they can also serve as genuine scientific tools and Minecraft never ceases to prove it. Recently, a YouTuber stunned his followers and the wider Minecraft community with an unprecedented experiment. The fan…...

15+ hour, 21+ min ago   (486+ words) 3DVF People who memorized phone numbers as kids built a brain skill science says is disappearing Try recalling your best friend’s childhood phone number right now. If you’re over thirty, chances are the digits still surface without effort, because you dialed…...

3+ hour, 4+ min ago   (220+ words) Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University, Kyoto University, SOKENDAI, and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences have revealed how CaMKIIα-a key brain protein involved in learning and memory-organizes itself into chain-like structures. Study reveals how…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (55+ words) A single drug taken during pregnancy may leave sharply different fingerprints on the developing brains of boys and girls, and a new study points to an unexpected culprit: a form of iron-driven cell death that appears to strike the male…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (55+ words) Why do some older minds stay nimble while others grow stubbornly rigid? A new study in mice offers one of the clearest answers yet, pointing to an unexpected culprit hiding inside the tiniest power plants of the brain. Researchers report…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (652+ words) A protein whose failure lies at the heart of a devastating childhood neurodegenerative disorder has turned out to be a long-sought enzyme in one of the cell’s most obscure lipid-making pathways. In two studies published in Nature Cell Biology, researchers…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (564+ words) Dopamine sits at the center of some of the most consequential questions in modern neuroscience, from how the brain controls movement to why certain circuits falter in Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and addiction. Yet for many laboratories around the world, the…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (124+ words) Fox News contributor Dr. Stephanie Widmer discusses the ethical concerns surrounding Stanford University researchers transplanting human brain cells into mice to study neurological disorders on 'Fox Report.' Stanford researchers face ethics concerns over transplanting human brain tissue to mice Fox…...