neuroscience : Science World Report

Nov 11, 2013 11:53 PM EST

Does Your Left Brain Know What Your Right Brain is Thinking?

I’ve never met a person who doesn’t know what I mean by this question. The idea that creative people use the right side of their brain more than logical people (the left-brained) is an extremely strong meme.

Oct 07, 2013 03:35 PM EDT

Human Brain Project, World’s Most Ambitious in Neuroscience, Officially Started Today

The world’s most ambitious neuroscience project is underway. Scientists from the 135 partner institutions of the Human Brain Project, co-funded by the EU with an estimated budget of €1.2 billion ($1.6 billion USD), are meeting in Switzerland for the official launch today, October 7, 2013.

Oct 03, 2013 05:38 PM EDT

Artifical Brain Stimulation Can Control Compliance With Social Norms

Neuroeconomists at the University of Zurich have identified a specific brain region that controls compliance with social norms. They discovered that norm compliance is independent of knowledge about the norm and can be increased by means of brain stimulation.

Sep 18, 2013 10:33 PM EDT

Neuroscience May Help Us Understand Financial Bubbles

Five years on from Lehman Brothers' collapse and “where did it all go wrong?” analysis is all the rage. Answers have varied: poor regulation, malicious bankers, dozy politicians, greedy homeowners, and so on.

Sep 11, 2013 09:02 PM EDT

New Imaging Technique Shows Worm’s Brain Activity at High Resolution

A new imaging technique to study the function of entire nervous systems has been developed by scientists at the Campus Vienna Biocenter (Austria) who found a way to overcome some of the limitations of light microscopy. Applying the new technique, they recorded the activity of a worm’s brain with h...

Sep 11, 2013 07:46 AM EDT

Scientists Selectively Erase Unwanted Memories in Rats and Mice

Memory can call up a range of emotions, facts and associations. Yet for recovering addicts and individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), these memories may be unwanted and devastating. Now, scientists have discovered a way to selectively erase dangerous drug-associated memor...

Aug 31, 2013 08:57 AM EDT

Poverty Reduces Brainpower: Concerns of the Poor Require More Mental Energy

Poverty may be having more of an impact on our brainpower than we thought. Scientists have discovered that the related concerns associated with poverty require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life.

Aug 27, 2013 05:29 PM EDT

How Brain Scans Can be Used to See What a Person Was Reading

By analysing MRI images of the brain with a special mathematical model, it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before. In this way, researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen have succeeded in determining from brain-scans which letter a test subject was looking at.

Aug 23, 2013 08:43 PM EDT

Brain Circuit That Can Tune Anxiety Identified

New findings may help neuroscientists pinpoint better targets for antianxiety treatments.

Aug 13, 2013 03:53 PM EDT

New Tools Invented to Manage 'Information Overload' of Researchers, Threatening Neuroscience

How to deal with exponentially growing research results as a scientist? A recent explosion of neuroscience research for example has resulted in the publication of nearly 2 million papers - more data than any researcher can read and absorb in a lifetime.

Jun 21, 2013 05:31 PM EDT

Sensing a Single Neuron's Signals Possible With Carbon Nanotube Harpoon

Neuroscientists may soon be modern-day harpooners, snaring individual brain-cell signals instead of whales with tiny spears made of carbon nanotubes.

Jun 15, 2013 04:48 PM EDT

New Memory Boosting Chemical Discovered: Mice Receive Brain Boost

Want to improve your memory? You may just need to have an injection. Scientists have discovered that memory improved in mice that were injected with a chemical that was discovered by UCSF researchers.