Category: Neurobiology

Casey Johnson's entry on Nobel Intent is an interesting snapshot of how the brain may handle multitasking: Researchers found that, when single-tasking, subjects used both …

According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that has been getting quite a bit of coverage, researchers at …

Given all of the news coverage about the U.S. health-care reform bill dominating the media last week, it's probably no surprise that I, and perhaps …

A treatment for tinnitus has similarities to treatments for phantom limb pain, and may reveal a similar cause in the brain

Maggie Koerth-Baker has an interesting entry on Boing Boing today on the biology of music and why humans like specific groups of tones. Her post …

The bone-crunching violence of football is part of the appeal. (I submit as evidence the fact that this YouTube video, which consists of three minutes …

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are beginning today to examine the brain of H.M., an amnesic patient who was studied for decades …

Evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been uncovered by researchers at the California Technical Institute, according to a …

Overindulging on a second piece of pie may have less to do with your will power, or lack thereof, than your choice in foods. A …