May 19th, 2012
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center recently transplanted a set of human genes into a zebrafish and then used it to identify genes responsible for head size at birth. Head size in human babies is related to autism, as well as other ...
May 18th, 2012

A new study has found that weak head and neck control in infants is a red flag for autism spectrum disorder ...
May 17th, 2012

A new study suggests that athletes who suffer head impacts during contact sports, such as ...
May 16th, 2012

Researchers have created a test that is able to predict whether a person is at a higher or lower risk of schizophrenia.
Led by scientists at ...
May 16th, 2012

A new study out of the University of California-Los Angeles shows that a high-fructose diet sabotages learning and memory in rats. The study, published in the Journal of Physiology, ...
May 14th, 2012

While scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” a distinct area of the ...
May 13th, 2012

Brain networks — areas of the brain that regularly work together — might avoid traffic jams at their busiest intersections by communicating ...
May 13th, 2012

While forgetting is normal, exactly how we forget — the brain processes guiding the process — has been, until now, poorly understood.
But now scientists from the ...
May 11th, 2012

New research shows that psychopathy is linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain.
The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and led by ...
May 11th, 2012

A study suggests a potential new therapy for improving memory and interrupting the progression of cognitive impairment that often leads to ...