Three years ago, 39-year-old Terry Wallis who had persisted in a minimally conscious state (MCS) for 19 years after a traumatic brain injury resulting from a motor-vehicle accident, recovered basic motor function and the power of speech. U...

This week, Van Kampen and Eckman take a angle on dopamine therapy: restoration rather than the usual chemical replacement approach. The authors examined the neurogenic effects of dopamine D3 receptor activation in hemiparkinsonian adul...

If you're having trouble setting goals, Genovesio et al. may be able to tell you where the problem resides. The authors examined prefrontal cortex (PF) neuronal activity in the encoding of previous and future goal selection. Monkeys were p...

Nociceptive sensory neurons of the dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) are generally divided into two main subclasses: those that bind the plant isolectin-B4 (IB4) and those that express the nerve growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase A (trkA). Ho...

To give your child an incentive to take out the garbage, you might offer to buy her a treat, or you might threaten to withhold her regular allowance. Does the child respond the same way to reward as it does to avoiding punishment? Psycholo...

Terry Wallis was barely conscious for twenty years after a car accident - three years ago he started speaking again. A short time later he was able to move his arms and legs. Doctors say his brain gradually started rewiring itself. Scienti...

Research into Parkinson's Disease at the University of Dundee has received a boost from a fundraising campaign organised by the Falkirk Branch of the Parkinson 's Disease Society.In 2005 over 100 people participated in a sponsored walk usi...

Consumer preferences for a brand can be increased over the competition by techniques used to manipulate memory, finds research published today in Applied Cognitive Psychology. The study's primary investigator Antonia Kronlund, now at the U...

Shenzhen BeikeBiotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the successful treatmentof two similar spinal cord injury patients using twodifferent procedures that involved umbilical cord stemcells. One method involved surgical transplantation of stemce...

Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's disease and other brain disorders are among a growing list of maladies attributed to oxidative stress, the cell damage caused during metabolism when the oxygen in the body assumes ever more chemically...