Special training methods can enable older adults to operate with the visual processing speed and accuracy of someone decades younger, according to researchers from Posit Science, who presented a study this week at the Society for Neuro...

The levels of a chemical released by the brain determine how detailed a memory will later be, according to researchers at UC Irvine. The neurotransmitter acetylcholine, a brain chemical already established as being crucial for learning and...

With an eye toward helping educate children and prepare the technological workforce needed to compete in today's global society, the National Science Foundation has awarded Temple University a two-year, $3.5 million grant to establish a Sp...

Sports medicine specialists in the University at Buffalo's Sports Medicine Institute have developed a method for treating athletes who sustain post-concussion syndrome that, unlike the conventional approach, allows athletes to maintain...

A article reviews the literature of quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) that documents abnormal brain wave patterns accompanying several medical conditions. The research implies that neurofeedback training may partially or fully...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that transplanting human stem cells into spinal cords of rats bred to duplicate Lou Gehrig's disease delays the start of nerve cell damage typical of the disease and slightly prolongs life. The graft...

Though in clinical use for decades, a small, sweet-tasting compound is revealing a startling face as a potential cure for epilepsy. 2-deoxy-glucose, or 2DG, has long been used in radio labeling, medical scanning and cancer imaging stud...

New research offers tantalizing clues as to why some teenagers taking common anti-depressants may become more aggressive or kill themselves. The research is published in the October Behavioral Neuroscience, which is published by the Americ...

Brain cells in some parts of the cerebral cortex of people with autism have too many connections, while other parts do not have enough, say researchers from the University of Washington, USA, at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. T...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered the major disease protein for two neurodegenerative disorders: a type of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lo...