Mind & Brain
Is the Brain Gendered? A Q&A with Harvard's Catherine Dulac
A biologist remarks on the extraordinary similarity of male and female brains despite the persistence of binary behavioral styles
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Animal Study Points to Drug Duo That Might Aid Injured Brains to Bounce Back
Can two everyday drugs prevent irreversible harm from traumatic brain injury?
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How Does a Gymnast--Or Even a Fitness Walker--Keep From Falling?
The brain constantly strives to reconcile its own internal picture of the world with the incoming sensory flood from eyes, ears and other sensory inputs— a process that lets us run, walk and move about the world...
Evolution
Archeologists Revive Alcoholic Beverage from the Earliest Years of the Neolithic Era (In Spanish)
A craft brewer makes Mesoamerican fermented beverages based on ancient indigenous recipes
Technology
Home-Brew Opiates Demonstrate the Wild and Woolies of Synthetic Biology
The ability to produce morphine—no poppies necessary—in a process akin to beer-making brings to the fore regulatory issues for a new biotechnology
Mind & Brain
Could a Non-Prescription Antifungal Become a Major Advance for Multiple Sclerosis?
In 2011, Paul Tesar, a professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, worked with collaborators to come up with a method of producing massive numbers of mouse stem cells that are capable of turning into oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin, the protective coating on nerve cells...
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Learning to Make a Stone Age Axe Gives Clues to How the Brain Evolved
For many decades, scientists have tried to understand the past by doing as our forebears did. One important endeavor in what is called experimental archaeology involves moderns crafting Stone Age tools by chipping away at rocks...
Mind & Brain
Should We Take Steps to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Contagion?
One of the most intriguing new areas of research in neuroscience has to do with the discovery that proteins involved with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative illnesses can contort into the wrong shape...
Mind & Brain
Does Drinking Alcohol Protect Against ALS?
Everyone knows that ALS is a very bad disease, an awareness underscored by the recent Ice Bucket Challenge. The death of neurons that results in paralysis can be caused by specific genetic mutations. But in most cases, single genes are not the culprit...
Mind & Brain
240 Head Hits: The Average a 10-Year Old Can Get in a Football Season
Coinciding with Super Bowl week, the journal Neurology just came out with a study by Boston University researchers that looked at retired professional football players, comparing the cognitive functioning of players who had started tackle football before age 12 with others who hadn’t...
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