progscrape: neuroscience

Caffeine alters the human brain’s electrical braking system: Consuming an amount of caffeine equivalent to two cups of coffee enhances the brain’s ability to temporarily quiet its own motor signals in response to sensory input.

54 days ago psypost.org brain neuroscience

Scientists just made a detailed "smell map" in the nose for the first time, turns out odor receptors are arranged in precise horizontal stripes

2 months ago nature.com neuroscience

The unconscious brain may still process sound, learn patterns, and predict words under anesthesia: « Learn how researchers recorded neurons responding to stories and predicting words while patients remained unconscious during surgery

54 days ago discovermagazine.com brain neuroscience

Time duration processing happens in three functional steps, each handled by different brain regions with different tuning properties

48 days ago earth.com brain neuroscience

New research demonstrates that different dimensions of neuroticism serve distinct evolutionary missions—'ensuring survival' versus 'pursuing happiness'

59 days ago eurekalert.org neuroscience

Sleep, Waste Clearance, and Dementia May Be Linked: Chronic stress, depression, cardiovascular disease, fragmented sleep, and aging are associated with a higher risk of dementia based on the same biological problem: disruption of a sleep-dependent brain rhythm that helps clear waste from the brain.

39 days ago urmc.rochester.edu brain disease neuroscience

Using cannabis and tobacco together increases by three times the risk of developing psychotic disorders like schizophrenia among those considered high risk

49 days ago news.vumc.org cannabis neuroscience

Every Organ Teaches Its Nerves What to Become: The gut’s “second brain” has siblings inside the heart, lungs, and pancreas, and each organ builds its own small nervous system from scratch

48 days ago dailyneuron.com brain neuroscience

25 people learned to fly with virtual wings. After flight training, the brain began treating wings more like real limbs

55 days ago sciencenews.org brain flight neuroscience

Stereotypes of autism in TV and film may be linked to delayed diagnosis

56 days ago stir.ac.uk autism neuroscience