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...

Italian scientists find a treatment that works on rats (ANSA) - Florence, May 16 - Italian researchers working with rats have discovered a treatment for weak vision that could be developed into a way of rejuvenating the human brain . The t...

Eyeing a cure. Damaged nerve fibers don't regrow ( top ) unless treated with oncomodulin ( bottom ). Credit: Larry Benowitz By Prashant Nair Science NOW Daily News 15 May 2006 When neurologists first found a way to regrow damaged optic ner...

Image: COURTESY OF PNAS New research in specially-bred mice has elucidated how the antidepressant Prozac works. Scientists have long known that in addition to discouraging synapses from reabsorbing the neurotransmitter serotonin Prozac (kn...