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Date & Place:06 September 2011 - NewScientist news
YOU will tell the truth. Applying a magnetic field to the brain seems to hamper our ability to tell lies.
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Date & Place:02 September 2011 - CNN blog
By WILLIAM HUDSON - Diagnosing autism is not easy. Doctors currently diagnose autism in children by observing behavior. But researchers at Standford University believe they have developed a way t ...
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Date & Place:02 September 2011 - NewScientist blog
By JESSICA HAMZELOU - An Italian woman is the latest person to have a murder sentence reduced on the grounds that abnormalities in her brain, and genes, could explain her behaviour.
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Date & Place:31 August 2011 - PopScience news
By REBECCA BOYLE - If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how many words make up a thought?
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Date & Place:30 August 2011 - Los Angeles Times blog
By MELISSA HEALY - Eighteen months after they have returned from a war zone, soldiers bear an unmistakable sign of emotional trauma deep inside their brains. But in most, a key node of the brain's ...
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Date & Place:24 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
A brain imaging scan identifies biochemical changes in the brains of normal people who might be at risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to research published in the August 24, 2011, online issue ...
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Date & Place:23 August 2011 - ABC science news
Scientists have pinpointed a region of the brain that is important for recognising well-known melodies, and to their surprise it seems to be essential for recognising famous faces too.
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Date & Place:21 August 2011 - BBC news
A breakdown of a recycling system in cells appears to be the underlying cause of a fatal nerve disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Date & Place:19 August 2011 - NewScientist news
By JESSICA HAMZELOU - STUDYING for an exam? Begin by thinking your way into a learning state. Until now, neuroscientists have focused on identifying parts of the brain that are active during learnin ...
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Date & Place:19 August 2011 - MIT news
By ANNE TRAFTON - Neuroscientists identify brain activity that predicts how well you will remember images.
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Date & Place:18 August 2011 - MIT News Office
By EMILY FINN - Cognitive neuroscientists shed light on how the brain responds to scenes and their mirror-image reversals.
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Date & Place:18 August 2011 - BBC news
By JAMES GALLAGHER - A gene has been linked to at least three cancers in different tissues in the body, US researchers say.
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Date & Place:16 August 2011 - New York Times BBC news
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR - Parents who have a child with autism have about a 1 in 5 chance of having a second child with autism, a far greater risk than previously believed, new research shows.
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Date & Place:16 August 2011 - ScienceDaily (press release)
What areas of the brain are involved in the linguistic processes underlying speech and listening and are there large differences between these? Neuroscientists from the Donders Institute for Brain, ...
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Date & Place:16 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but how do our brains decide when and who we should copy? Researchers from The University of Nottingham have found that the key may lie in an unspoke ...
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Date & Place:15 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are two of the most prevalent forms of neurodegenerative disorders. In a study published online today in Genome Research (www.genome ...
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Date & Place:12 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Sigma-1 receptor offers potential therapeutic target
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Date & Place:11 August 2011 - Scientific American news
By CATHERINE HARMON - A web of minuscule wires woven into an adhesiveless silicon patch could provide a future where heart monitors are nearly invisible, prosthetics can feel pressure and video gam ...
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Date & Place:11 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
In both chimpanzees and humans, portions of the brain that are critical for complex cognitive functions, including decision-making, self-awareness and creativity, are immature at birth. But there a ...
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Date & Place:11 August 2011 - Fox news
Similar genetic changes found in some people with ADHD and in some with autism may help explain why children with the hyperactivity disorder often have symptoms of other developmental disorders, a ...
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Date & Place:10 August 2011 - BBC news
By HELEN BRIGGS - Around 30 genetic risk factors for developing multiple sclerosis have been discovered by a UK-led team.
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Date & Place:10 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
new study suggests that the relationship between brain shrinkage and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease changes across the age spectrum. The research is published in the August 10, 2011, online is ...
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Date & Place:10 August 2011 - IEEE Spectrum blog
By ERICA WESTLY - Individual research findings mean little without context. This is especially true in the neuroimaging field where sample sizes are typically in the low double digits. Researchers ...
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Date & Place:10 August 2011 - ScienceBlog.com
A review of national data from 1996 through 2007 reveals a sharp uptick in the use of computed tomography, or CT, scans to diagnose illnesses in emergency departments, a University of Michigan Heal ...
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Date & Place:10 August 2011 - BBC news
Aggressive and impulsive behaviour in men could be linked to a deficiency of a particular type of neurotransmitter in the brain, a new study by Cardiff University scientists claims.
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Date & Place:10 August 2011 - Nature News Feature
By ALLA KATSNELSON - How 'sham' brain surgery could be killing off valuable therapies for Parkinson's disease.
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Date & Place:09 August 2011 - Wall Street Journal news
By MELINDA BECK - An elderly woman's sudden depression turns out to be a side effect of her high blood-pressure medication. A new mother's exhaustion and disinterest in her baby seem like postpartum ...
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Date & Place:09 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Like explorers mapping a new planet, scientists probing the brain need every type of landmark they can get. Each mountain, river or forest helps scientists find their way through the intricacies of ...
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Date & Place:09 August 2011 - EurekAlert! (press release)
A combination of exom sequencing and analysis of retina tissue generated from induced pluripotent stem cells identified a mutation in a gene not previously associated with human eye disease as the ...
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