neuroscience
How a Concussion Can Lead to Depression Years Later
Posted in Medicine on 10th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
A head injury can lead brain cells to go on "high alert" and overreact to immune challenges by becoming excessively inflammatory, a condition linked with depressive complications.
Stomach 'clock' tells us how much to eat
Posted in Medicine on 7th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
"These nerves are responsible for letting the brain know how much food we have eaten and when to stop eating".
Memories are geotagged with spatial information, researchers find
Posted in Science on 5th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
Neurons that encode spatial information form geotags for specific memories and these geotags are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.
Men and women's brains are 'wired differently'
Posted in Science on 3rd Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
Men and women's brains are connected in different ways which may explain why the sexes excel at certain tasks, say researchers.
Solving the Neural Code Conundrum: Digital or Analog?
Posted in Science on 1st Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
Physicists have developed a technique that can tell which parts of the brain rely on analog signals and which rely on digital signals.