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The researchers compared the results of this study with brain scan images of other individuals who used older makes of phones ... Researchers, physicians, and physical therapists should look into devising physical rehabilitation programs that engage and exercise the hands of the patients in an effort to stimulate regions of their brains to reorganize and possibly restore the lost neural connections....
noodls 2015-03-20The researchers also found no differences between those that got Omega-3s and those that got the placebo when they put a subgroup of subjects into a brain scanner and had them perform a task requiring sustained mental control ... Because DHA is plentiful in the brain, researchers have long speculated that this component of fish oil is most improtant for the fatty acid's neuropsychiatric effects....
The Los Angeles Times 2015-03-20Rugby is researching the long-term effects of injuries to players’ heads and necks, which can encounter forces stronger than an F-16 fighter pilot performing a roll ... Concussion has become such an emotive topic, Saracens won’t say who’s conducting the research until its conclusion ... Nuzum, whose family donated his brain for research, died at 57 from CTE....
Bloomberg 2015-03-20The treatment led to reductions in brain amyloid, a type of plaque believed to play a key role in the development of Alzheimer's symptoms, according to interim data presented at a medical meeting in Nice, France, on Friday ... Using imaging to measure amyloid in six regions of the brain, researchers found plaque levels were virtually unchanged at 26 and 54 weeks into the study for the placebo group....
Reuters 2015-03-20Movies don't come much lamer than "Sex and the Single Alien," a nonsensical sci-fi comedy whose saving grace is that it's barely an hour long. Movie reviewsOpen link ... The explanation-defying upshot ... It all leads to a sequence at a "brain research center" that's best left unexamined ... Add a comment. 0 ... ------------ ... ....
The Los Angeles Times 2015-03-20She traveled abroad to work with the Music, Mind, and Brain research group at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she contributed to a study examining the relationship between emotions, music, and the commercial effectiveness of TV advertisements. The research focused on measuring how electrodermal activity, or activity in the sweat glands, can be used to quantify emotional arousal....
noodls 2015-03-20[Brown University] - Brown University and its affiliated hospitals will celebrate brain science research March 25, 2015, by packing Sayles Hall with more than 120 research poster presentations ... the second annual Mind Brain Research Day will feature basic and clinical research from all corners of the Brown Institute for Brain Science....
noodls 2015-03-19But what about your brain? When was the last time you sat in a quiet, darkened room with no distractions and allowed your brain to think about itself? Maybe you never have. Despite some remarkable advances, the brain remains largely a mystery ... The week celebrates and international campaign started in 1995 to raise awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research ... Another author who spent time pondering his brain was Roald Dahl....
The Independent 2015-03-19Researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK compared the amount of time people spend on multiple devices (such as texting while watching TV) to MRI scans of their brains ... While more research is needed to determine if multitasking is physically damaging the brain (versus existing brain damage that predisposes people to multitask), it's clear that multitasking has negative effects....
Huffington Post 2015-03-18"It is an honor to partner with The Dana Foundation and Society for Neuroscience as we continue our advocacy efforts to push brain research to the forefront of federal science priorities ... I commend every individual and organization that is using Brain Awareness Week to draw attention to this critically important issue and doing their part to raise awareness of brain health and neuroscience research."....
PR Newswire 2015-03-18"It is an honor to partner with The Dana Foundation and Society for Neuroscience as we continue our advocacy efforts to push brain research to the forefront of federal science priorities ... I commend every individual and organization that is using Brain Awareness Week to draw attention to this critically important issue and doing their part to raise awareness of brain health and neuroscience research."....
noodls 2015-03-18Rooney (R-FL), co-chairs of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, today announced the introduction the National Traumatic Brain Injury Research and Treatment Improvement Act of 2015, legislation that would direct the CDC to establish a national system to track the occurrence of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and collect data to assist research, prevention, and treatment development efforts....
noodls 2015-03-18The most up-to-date autopsy statistics assessing the rate of CTE ranges from 50 to 97 percent of the former NFL players who have donated their brains to research, according to a review of studies by the University of California at San Francisco published last week in the journal Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience ... Researchers look for markers such ......
ABC News 2015-03-18Brain Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on several aspects of neuroscience. It publishes research reports and "minireviews". The editor-in-chief is Irwin B. Levitan.
Until 2011, full reviews were published in Brain Research Reviews, which is now integrated into the main section. In 2006, four other previously established semi-independent journal sections (Cognitive Brain Research, Developmental Brain Research, Molecular Brain Research, and Brain Research Protocols) were merged with Brain Research.
The journal has nine main subsections:
Brain Research is indexed in: