Children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, just love music and will spend hours listening to or making music. Despite averaging an IQ score of 60, many possess a great memory for songs, an uncanny sense of rhythm, and the ki...

1. PSD-95 and Dendriti Branching In Vitro Erik I. Charych, Barbara F. Akum, Joshua S. Goldberg, Rebecka J. J rnsten, Christopher Rongo, James Q. Zheng, and Bonnie L. Firestein Many proteins are known to multitask, and postsynaptic density...

The concept of whetting the appetite by serving hors d'oeuvres before a meal may have a solid scientific basis, according to a report in the October issue of the journal Cell Metabolism , published by Cell Press. In a study of rats tra...

Several factors, including maternal infection during pregnancy, very preterm birth, and certain findings on brain MRI scans were correlated with cerebral palsy, according to a study in the October 4 issue of JAMA. Magnetic resonance imagin...

Cancer, drug addiction, neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, immune system defects, visual pathologies, heart disease. A tiny insect, the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is providing an excellent model system to unravel these diseases...

A first kiss, an exotic vacation, a sports team championship, a child's first words: all are memorable events. But when someone has amnesia, have the memories been completely purged from the brain or are they simply irretrievable? Is amnes...

Brain formation involves the carefully timed production of different types of nerve cells by neural stem cells: neurons are produced first, then astrocytes. Making too much of one kind of cell and too little of another at a given time coul...

Disorders that result from duplication or deletion of large regions of DNA are known as genomic disorders and are relatively common, 1 per 1,000 births. Each disorder is characterized by a distinct set of neurobehavioral traits. For exampl...

Alexian Brothers Health System will bring world-leading technology to Chicago with the acquisition of an Elekta Neuromag(R), a leading-edge device that provides extremely sophisticated, real-time 3-D mapping of brain activity for use by bo...

When it comes to a devastating spinal injury, says spine surgeon Alexander Vaccaro, M.D., timing might be nearly everything. It's also a topic of great debate and discussion among orthopaedic surgeons. Dr. Vaccaro, professor of orthopaedic...