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Hearing Metaphors Activates Brain Regions Involved in Sensory Experience
When a friend tells you she had a rough day, do you feel sandpaper under your fingers? The brain may be replaying sensory experiences to help understand common metaphors, new research suggests. Linguists and psychologists have debated how much the parts...
Brain’s Connective Cells are Much More Than Glue
Glia cells, named for the Greek word for “glue,” hold the brain’s neurons together and protect the cells that determine our thoughts and behaviors, but scientists have long puzzled over their prominence in the activities of the brain...
UTHealth Researchers Link Multiple Sclerosis to Different Area of Brain
Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects an area of the brain that controls cognitive, sensory and motor functioning apart from the disabling damage...
Rebuilding the Brain’s Circuitry
Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely believed. Collaborators from Harvard University,...
It Takes Two: Brains Come Wired for Cooperation, Neuroscientist Asserts
When Nancy Grace and her partner danced a lively rumba to Spandau Ballet’s 1980′s hit, “True,” on a recent “Dancing with the Stars,” more was going on in the legal commentator’s brain than worry over a possible...
Watching Another Person’s Dreams Moves a Step Closer to Reality
Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are bringing these futuristic scenarios...
New Aqueous Reagent Turns Biological Tissue Transparent
Researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research organization, have developed a ground-breaking new aqueous reagent which literally turns biological tissue transparent. Experiments using fluorescence microscopy on samples treated with the reagent,...
When It Comes to Pursuing Your Goals, Let You Unconscious be Your Guide
A new University of Alberta study says when it comes to goal setting, your unconscious mind can be a great motivator. Alberta School of Business researcher Sarah Moore and colleagues from Duke and Cornell universities say that unconscious feelings about...
