The Brain

Listening to Football Helmets

November 20, 2012

Measuring the acoustical signatures of colliding football helmets could help improve helmet safety.

November 15, 2012

Areas of the brain normally associated with physical pain are activated when people with math …

November 13, 2012

Monsters from the role playing game “Dungeons & Dragons” help reveal what’s most important to …

November 7, 2012

The brain has two very different mechanisms for erasing bad memories.

October 9, 2012

The insulation surrounding nerves develops more quickly in chimpanzees than in humans.

October 2, 2012

Neglect keeps young brains from developing adequate insulation.

September 7, 2012

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS - A new drug that could block heroin addiction, how mice could speed up AIDS …

September 5, 2012

A drug called (+)-naloxone blocks the brain’s addiction to heroin and other opiates.

July 27, 2012

ANIMAL SURVIVAL - Naked mole-rats defy old age, vampire spiders attack Franken-mosquitoes, dogs …