neuroscience

Drug Hopes to Delay Onset of Alzheimer's Symptoms With a Monthly Shot in the Arm

Posted in Medicine on 28th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Alzheimers disease is on the rise, even as doctors continue to struggle to find potential treatments for it.

How we process numbers is revealed in our brain structure

Posted in Medicine on 25th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

For a long time, scientists thought that everyone processed numbers predominantly in a spatial way (low to high numbers visualized as left to right).

Study shows Where Alzheimer's starts and how it spreads

Posted in Science on 23rd Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Researchers have clarified three fundamental issues about Alzheimer's: where it starts, why it starts there, and how it spreads.

Serotonin deficiency may not cause depression after all

Posted in Science on 16th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

New research may lead to a more direct and effective treatment than common SSRI drugs.

A neuroscientist's radical theory of how networks become conscious

Posted in Science on 10th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Where does consciousness come from? We know it exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry and electricity in our brains is an unsolved mystery.