A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his collaborators have identified the factor in mammalian brain cells that keeps cells in synchrony so that functions like the wake-sleep cycle, hormone secretion and loco motor behavio...

Drugs used to treat cancer may damage normal, healthy brain cells more than the cancer cells they are meant to target. A study published today in the open access journal Journal of Biology shows that clinical doses of chemotherapeutic drug...

The Barbara Turnbull Foundation, NeuroScience Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) award the 2006 Barbara Turnbull Award for Spinal Cord Research to Dr. Pierre Drapeau at the Universite de Montreal. Dr. Drapeau is r...

The largest-scale search for genes that underlie sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of the disease, has crossed its first hurdle with the successful compiling of genetic information on more than 1,000 patien...

A study has found that adolescents who play violent video games may exhibit lingering effects on brain function, including increased activity in the region of the brain that governs emotional arousal and decreased activity in the brain...

Chronic smoking affects nerve cells and alters the chemical makeup of the brain, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). "This is the first imaging study to focus on the re...

A German research team using a specialized imaging technique revealed that individuals suffering from chronic low back pain also had microstructural changes in their brains. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiolog...

A blind man suffering deja vu. It sounds like a contradiction in terms - but the first case study of its kind has turned the whole theory of deja vu on its head. Traditionally it was thought images from one eye were delayed, arriving in th...

Many people with fibromyalgia - a debilitating pain syndrome that affects 2 to 4 percent of the population - have faced the question of whether the condition is real. Fibromyalgia often has been misdiagnosed as arthritis or even a psycholo...

When you sit down to watch a DVD of your favourite film, the chances are that you are able to predict the exact sequence of events that is about to unfold. Without our memories we would not only be unable to remember our past but perhaps m...