Optical Illusion Gives Insight Into How We Perceive the World
When you look at the two images below, what do you see? Maybe you see two ducks, sitting side by side. Perhaps instead you...
Men and Women Show Equal Ability in Recognizing Faces
Despite conventional wisdom that suggests women are better than men at facial recognition, Penn State psychologists found no difference between men and women in...
Amphetamine Abuse Disrupts Development of the Prefrontal Cortex
Recreational drug use during adolescence may disrupt development of an understudied part of the prefrontal cortex, according to a study of male mice published...
Scientists discover critical molecular biomarkers of preeclampsia
Preeclampsia, a sudden pregnancy complication that can interfere with the blood flow to the placenta and possibly to the fetus, can lead to low...
Glial Cells Play Key Role in Regulating Motivation for Drug in...
Scientists studying addiction know that heroin and other opioids induce plasticity in brain cells.
Now, University at Buffalo researchers have made the novel discovery...
Blood pressure and heart rate are not fixed, but rather they...
Blood pressure and heart rate are not fixed, but rather they adapt to meet physical and social demands placed on the body, according to...
Why animals have evolved to favor one side of the brain
Most left-handers can rattle off a list of their eminent comrades-in-arms:
Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, and Barack Obama, just to name three, but they may...
Why do males tend to consider women with a lower waist-hip...
Male turkeys famously will attempt to mate with a head on a stick.
In fact, gobblers prize a snug snood over the whole hen....
Surgery to remove the thymus gland in patients with myasthenia gravis...
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a neuromuscular disease, meaning that it affects the muscles and the nerves that control them.
It is caused by a disorder...
Role of the thalamus in perception and reaction to predators
How the zebrafish brain perceives and reacts to predators has been determined by researchers at the University of Queensland.
School of Biomedical Sciences Associate Professor...
Research have discovered that squamous cell skin cancers do not require...
Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have discovered that squamous cell skin cancers...
One of the main causes of aphasia is stroke
In an article in Brain, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and elsewhere report which brain regions must be intact in...
Small changes in a single olfactory receptor gene can affect how...
Several years ago the internet was captivated by the enigma of “the dress” – specifically, was the dress black and blue, or was it...
SYPHILIS STRIKE BACK – The problem of medicines
As the world continue to find better ways to treat disease conditions, a study by a group of health professionals, published in the journal...
Chronic stress is a well-known risk factor for the development of...
Chronic stress is a well-known risk factor for the development of psychiatric illnesses including depression disorders.
The brain requires a great deal of glucose, and...
