Search Results for 'Brain'

Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain

The left hemisphere of the human brain controls language, arguably our greatest mental attribute. It also controls the remarkable dexterity of the human right hand. The right hemisphere is dominant in the control of, among other things, our [...]

Posted On : Jun, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Way to stop cancers seed in brain

A UK team discovered cancer cells hijack the brain's blood vessels to get all the nourishment they need to seed themselves there.Key to this is a protein on the surface of cancer cells called integrin which allows them to stick to the ves [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Rogue protein 'spreads in brain'

They believe the tau protein may share characteristics with the prion proteins which cause vCJD. When injected into the brains of healthy mice it triggered formation of protein tangles linked to Alzheimer's. However, experts stressed the [...]

Posted On : Jun, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Forgotten and lost when proteins shut down our brain

Which modules of the tau protein, in neurons of Alzheimer disease patients, may act in a destructive manner were investigated by researchers from. The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen) and the Max Planck Unit [...]

Posted On : Feb, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

New Evidence of The Brains Role in Obesity

People are obese because they love to eat, right? Not according to a recent brain study. Researchers found that obese people actually enjoy the food they eat less than lean people do, and therein lies the problem. In order to compensate for [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

Monogamy may alter brain chemistry

A U.S. researcher says a study of prairie voles suggests monogamy may alter brain chemistry, resulting in depression when separated from their mate. Neuroscientist Larry J. Young of Emory University said close monogamous relationships fost [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

A robot with a biological brain

University of Reading scientists have developed a robot controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. And this is a world’s premiere. Other research teams have tried to control robots with ‘brains,’ but th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

Revealed: The fascinating facts (and common myths) about our...

Does a bigger brain make you more intelligent? Do blind people really hear better than sighted people? And why can't you get that irritating tune out of your head? There are many myths about our brains and as many amazing facts, as reve [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2008 | Comments : 1

What stops us from being perfect? It may be our brains.

Teach a robot to sink a freethrow, and it will sink a hundred in a row. Teach people, and even after years of practice, they’ll still miss a few. Why? Neuroscientist Krishna Shenoy of Stanford University had macaque monkeys repeat a s [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

Addiction and hunger seem to activate the same brain circuit...

If you want to know what it’s like to be addicted to cocaine, you might imagine being really, really hungry. That’s according to neuroscientist Nora Volkow (Vol-kov), director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She found [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2007 | Comments : 0

The brain-body connection.

Scientist wondered why does each half of the brain control the opposite side of the body? It is true that nerve fibers from the right side of the brain cross over to the left side of the body and vice versa. But according to neuroscie [...]

Posted On : Jul, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Brain Hackers

Vijay Srinivasan is jabbing a extensive, cruel-looking needle at a piece of rat brain about half the size of a fingernail at the wet lab 412C on the University of Southern California’s Los Angeles campus. All around him, coils of cabl [...]

Posted On : Apr, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

The Origin Of The Brain Lies In A Worm

The rise of the central nervous system [CNS] in animal evolution has puzzled scientists for centuries. Vertebrates, insects and worms evolved from the same ancestor, but their CNSs are different and were thought to have evolved only after t [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2007 | Comments : 0

World's First Image-guided Surgical Robot To Enhance Accurac...

Surgery is about to change with the introduction of a new surgical robotic system at the University of Calgary/Calgary Health Region. NeuroArm aims to revolutionize neurosurgery and other branches of operative medicine by liberating them fr [...]