Items tagged with brain

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Sudden Moves Spark Brain Battle Sunday, October 25th, 2009 - 18:37:39 - Ehud Rattner Sudden movements and sounds can trigger a battle between neurons in the brain, and the winners get to decide where an animal will look, according to... read more

Juggling Grows Brain Networks For Good Monday, October 12th, 2009 - 16:07:11 - Ehud Rattner Juggling boosts the connections between different parts of the brain by tweaking the architecture of the brain's "white matter" – a finding that... read more

Birds and Babies Grasp Physics Similarly Sunday, October 11th, 2009 - 17:48:30 - Ehud Rattner Even with their tiny bird brains, rooks comprehend basic principles of physics at the same level as a 6-month-old baby, and beyond that of... read more

Exploring the Mind's Twilight Zone Friday, October 9th, 2009 - 10:05:48 - Anuradha Menon Earlier this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It described two Italian people who never truly slept. They might lie... read more

Pensioner Grows New Skull Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - 18:07:21 - Anuradha Menon Gordon Moore, 72, had worn a metal plate to protect his brain for more than 50 years after he was involved in a car crash. But when surgeons removed... read more

Cooling 'Cuts Baby Brain Damage' Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - 16:35:49 - Anuradha Menon Babies who are starved of oxygen at birth have a much lower risk of brain damage if they are given mild hypothermia, major research suggests. More... read more

People in Vegetative States Can Still Learn Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 - 09:23:49 - Anuradha Menon The breakthrough could suggest which patients have the potential to recover from their injuries or illness, researchers said. Scientists believe that... read more

Scientists Cure Colour Blindness in Monkeys Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - 09:17:35 - Anuradha Menon The breakthrough could also have implications for other damaging genetic eye defects, including those which can cause blindness, after researchers... read more

Is Your Cell Phone Melting Your Brain? Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - 12:05:36 - Ehud Rattner It is too soon to know if cell phone users are at risk of developing cancer, but research conducted in Scandinavia and Israel suggests that, at the... read more

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