Neuroscience in the News

What's going on in the world of neuroscience? What's new? What's happening? With fascinating stories that focus on brain research, this page will keep you informed of the breaking discoveries and events in neuroscience.

[Current Neuroscience News Stories]

Movie Amnesia vs. Real Amnesia
Hollywood rarely portrays amnesia accurately
December 28, 2004

Heavy Metals Found in Ayurvedic Medicines
December 22, 2004

Driving Distractions Take Their Toll
Cell Phones and Other Distractions Contribute to Accidents
December 20, 2004

New Headrest Regulations to Prevent Whiplash
December 10, 2004

Dinosaur Neck Decoded
December 4, 2004

Pigeons Detect Magnetic Fields
December 1, 2004

Smaller Amygdala Size in Cocaine Addicts
November 23, 2004

Swimming in Circles
Clockwise direction preferred by Southern Hemisphere dolphins
Counterclockwise direction preferred by Northern Hemisphere dolphins
November 23, 2004

Sniffing Out Bladder Cancer
November 10, 2004

Mental Illness: The Cost to Society
November 1, 2004

FDA Approves Microchip Technology
October 18, 2004

Annoying Cell Phones
October 18, 2004

Goodbye, Superman Christopher Reeve
October 11, 2004

Smelly Research Nets Two US Researchers the Nobel Prize
October 7, 2004

Female Brains Have More Folds
October 4, 2004

Stroke Attacks Dreams
September 17, 2004

Muscle gene linked to human brain expansion
September 2, 2004

United States Facing a Shortage of Scientists and Engineers
August 18, 2004

Nothing to Cheer About: Head and Neck Injuries
August 13, 2004

Club Drug Emergency Department Visits Decline
August 10, 2004

Methamphetamine Alters Brain Structure
July 29, 2004

Mercury and Seafood
July 23, 2004

Helmets for Ice Skaters?
July 19, 2004

Rico's Rich Vocabulary
July 14, 2004

CPSC Warns of Lead Contamination in Vending Machine Jewelry
July 9, 2004

Taking the Sting Out of Jellyfish Stings
June 25, 2004

Summertime, and the Driving is Easy...
June 17, 2004

Mental Illness in Disney Films
June 4, 2004

Children Use Bike Helmets Less Than Their Parents Think
June 4, 2004

Lionfish Invade Eastern US Coast
Look, But Don't Touch
May 25, 2004

Long-Term Effects of Concussions in Football Players
May 18, 2004

Prions in Long-Term Memory
May 18, 2004

Ant Body Odor Signals Job To Be Done
April 27, 2004

FDA Bans Ephedra
April 16, 2004

A Spider With Your Grapes?
April 13, 2004

FDA Warns of Lead Contamination in Some Mexican Candy
April 12, 2004

Fatalities Up as Florida Weakens Motorcycle Helmet Law
April 9, 2004

Brain Fitness
Exercise saves cognitive abilities in older adults
April 9, 2004

Nicotine, Secondhand Smoke and Infants
Smoking outside the home still exposes infants to nicotine
March 4, 2004

Egyptian Conjoined Twins Separated
February 25, 2004

Modern Playgrounds Reduce Head Injuries
February 24, 2004

Drinking and Driving Affects Kids Too!
February 24, 2004

Seeing with New Sight
Vision abilities and deficits after forty years of blindness
February 23, 2004

Juggling Juggles the Brain
February 3, 2004

Locoweed
February 3, 2004

Did West Nile Virus Conquer Alexander the Great?
January 27, 2004

US Government Takes Steps to Protect Food Supply from BSE
January 10, 2004

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