new brain

(Emory University) New brain imaging research reveals that a region of the brain important for sensing texture through touch, the parietal operculum, is also activated when someone listens to a sentence with a textural metaphor.

The same region is not activated when a similar sentence expressing the meaning of the metaphor is heard.

Jesus Barrios was shot twice in the head, with one bullet passing through and leaving staple-sized fragments in his brain.

He faced a future of seizures, infection, and vision loss because it's too risky to remove the specks.

(Rutgers University) A new brain-based computational model is helping to understand how Parkinson's disease and dopamine medications -- used to treat motor symptoms caused by the disease -- can affect learning and attention.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, patients typically suffer a major loss of the brain connections necessary for memory and information processing.

Now, a combination of nutrients that was developed at MIT has shown the potential to improve memory in Alzheimer's patients by stimulating growth of new brain connections.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Researchers have developed a novel animal model showing that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, and that the condition could be partially reversed with the growth factor IGF-1.

(University of California - Santa Cruz) New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study in which researchers observed the rewiring processes that take place in the brain during motor learning.

(Yale University) Contrary to the prevailing view, the hormone leptin, which is critical for normal food intake and metabolism, appears to regulate bone mass and suppress appetite by acting mainly through serotonin pathways in the brain, according to a recent study published in Cell by Yale School of Medicine researchers and colleagues at Columbia University.

This new finding contradicts the view that leptin acts primarily in the hypothalamus.