Research from Brandeis University published online this week in Nature offers insight into how neural circuits are shaped by experience. The article provides evidence for the mechanisms that affect the ability of the visual cortex...

The Forsyth Institute today announced the creation of a computerized system for monitoring, analyzing and controlling cognitive science experiments. For the first time, researchers will have the ability to automate the analysis of anim...

University of Utah researchers isolated an unusual nerve toxin in an ocean-dwelling snail, and say its ability to glom onto the brain's nicotine receptors may be useful for designing drugs to treat a variety of psychiatric and brain di...

It appears the human brain attempts to heal itself by giving birth to neurons following a stroke. This finding, by scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research, confirms similar studies in animal models and offers targets for...

Children with autism have altered brain anatomy thought to be due to abnormal brain development, according to a study published in the August 22, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The st...

A fly pheromone receptor Tal Soo Ha and Dean P. Smith Insects use pheromone signaling for all sorts of interesting behaviors, yet only a single volatile pheromone has been identified in Drosophila, the lipid 11-cis-vaccenyl acetate (VA). U...

According to a studypublished in the journal Neurology, pramipexole significantly improved RLSsymptoms in patients with moderate to severe restless legs syndrome (RLS)versus those on placebo, as measured by both of the study's primaryeffic...

NeurobiologicalTechnologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTII), (NTI(R)), a biotechnology companyengaged in the business of acquiring and developing central nervous system(CNS) related drug candidates, today announced that it has completed itstargeted U...

In what is believed to be the first study showing neural changes in the brains of children with serious, untreated sleep apnea, Johns Hopkins researchers conclude that children with the disorder appear to suffer damage in two brain structu...

Exposure to light is known to enhance both alertness and performance in humans, but little is understood regarding the neurological basis for these effects, especially those associated with daytime light exposure. Now, by exposing subjects...