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.
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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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