Norrbottnian congenital insensitivity to pain, a disease that brings complete insensitivity even to injuries that cause severe pain in healthy people, is caused by a mutation in a gene on chromosome 1. This has been shown in a dissertation...

UC Irvine researchers have found that a protein best known for building connections between nerve cells and muscle also plays a role in controlling brain cell activity. The finding points to possible therapeutic applications in the develop...

When a group of people tries to decide how to carry out an important task, it is sometimes said that the pivotal discussions do not happen in large, well-attended meetings, but in one-on-one conversations around the water cooler. It turns...

With accuracy unknown until now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in G枚ttingen together with the neurophysiologist Maxim Volgushev from th...

Humans have an uncanny ability to skim through text, instantly recognizing words by their shape--even though writing developed only about 6000 years ago--long after humans evolved. Thus, neuroscientists have hotly debated whether an area o...

Everybody has experienced a sense of "losing oneself" in an activity--whether a movie, sport, sex, or meditation. Now, researchers have caught the brain in the act of losing "self" as it shuts down introspection during a demanding sensory...

As early as one or two days after a stroke, that is, far earlier than was previously thought, the formation of nerve cells and blood vessels gets underway in the affected area. This is indicated by findings in a dissertation by Wei Jua...

Newswise — Can one literally “lose oneself” in an experience? Many theoretical models of the mind reject this notion, proposing that awareness is dependent on the mediation of areas involved in self representation – a vigilant, self-aw...

With over 50,000 species, Osteichthyans, or bony fish, accounts for 98% of the present-day vertebrates. Bony fish falls into two groups: actinopterygians, meaning ray-finned bony fish, and sarcopterygians, meaning lobe-finned bony fish. Th...

The IX International Congress on Medical and Applied Malacology will convene from Oct. 17 to 20 in Qingdao, a coastal city in east China's Shandong Province. The conference will be jointly organized by the Chinese Society of Malacology, Chi...