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Understanding the Molecular Basis of Cognition (News and Features) 13 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Building on the work of pioneers like Patricia Goldman-Rakic, researchers find a nicotinic receptor might play a vital role in our highest forms of reasoning.
Do Cytokines Really Sing the Blues? (Cerebrum) 1 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Evidence suggests several causes for depression, including traumatic life events, disease, poison, and nutritional deficiencies. Many of these causes are associated with elevated levels of inflammator...
Learning to Use a Brain-Machine Interface Looks Like Learning a Motor Skill (News and Features) 29 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Patterns of activation increase, and as the skill is learned, decrease in much the same way if people are learning to manipulate their fingers or manupulate a cursor on a screen, according to recent r...
The Promise of Neurofeedback (News and Features) 23 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Researchers are combining real-time brain imaging with operant conditioning.
Reprogramming Stem Cells Directly in the Brain (News and Features) 15 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Lund University researchers develop alternate technique that simplifies stages between programming a cell and inserting it into the brain.
Persistent Failure of “Disease-Modifying” Drugs to Benefit Alzheimer Disease: Now What? (News and Features) 10 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Since 2001 there have been seven Phase III and two Phase II clinical trials in individuals with symptomatic AD of therapeutic agents that target amyloid-beta (Aβ). Why have these drugs failed and what...
Why Do All the Large Alzheimer’s Drug Trials Fail? (News and Features) 8 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Are the drugs ineffective? Or is there something about large trials that obscures their effectiveness?
Gut Feelings: Bacteria and the Brain (Cerebrum) 1 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Gut Feelings Bacteria and the Brain By Jane A. Foster 2013 07 01 false Editor’s Note The gut brain axis—an imaginary line
To Hell and Back (Cerebrum) 26 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
New York Post reporter Susannah Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into madness and the brilliant, lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen.
Baby Consciousness (News and Features) 25 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Researchers find signs of emerging consciousness in the brain activity of infants—and expect to find similar signs in animals.
