Science news articles about 'brain'

Researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging to look at what goes on in the brain before an error.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drinking alcohol dulls the brain's ability to detect threats, U.S. researchers ...

... .- The potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors is being explored through a partnership between NASA ...

Even the slower-witted among us can improve our mental agility with a few daily brain teasers, a study suggests.

... well established that the brain uses more energy than any other human organ, accounting for up to 20 percent of the body ...

... market for more brain power? In what's being touted as "a landmark" result, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor ... in the face of conventional wisdom in psychology that training for one brain task cannot be transferred to improvement in other mental ...

... cash and social values in the same part of our brain (the striatum)--and likely weigh them against ...

... selection over time so as to minimize their demands on the brain, Changizi said. By conducting a series of calculations based ... in the most efficient dictionaries — as well as in their human counterpart, the brain. Most importantly, he discovered that the total number ...

... -cell death in animal models of traumatic brain injury, but these findings have not been translated into trials involving ... -TBI progesterone injections in the patients with severe brain trauma” said Professor Yan. “Our work was to determine ...

... use it, the authors say. “It appears there is a largely bisexual or ‘unisex brain.’ Anatomically, the differences are subtle and a few critical ... and primary investigator of the study. “Our work shows that the brains not only look similar but are functionally similar. The females ...

... (AP) -- Many Iraq war veterans with traumatic brain injury are not getting adequate health care ...

Brain-imaging studies performed in animals at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National ...

... in cell signaling and development is found at higher levels in the brains of chronic alcoholics compared to people of the same ... the idea that the complex behavioral, psychological, emotional and brain changes associated with alcoholism are likely due ...

The fear of a decaying brain has inspired a mini-industry of products from dietary supplements to computer games.

Brain-training efforts designed to improve working memory can also boost scores in general problem ...