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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 12 12th, 2011 | No Comments

The Knowledge Helps London Taxi Drivers Grow Grey Matter

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Or an adult human for that matter. New research from England shows that not only can we learn throughout our lives but that learning can change the structure of our brains as well. Eleanor Maguire from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 09 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Watch Your Thoughts

It would be so much easier to replay dreams, record thoughts and communicate without speaking. But this type of futuristic technology was always thought to be a dream of a far away future or the plot of a science fiction movie. Hollywood Movie clip (L), fMRI image of same clip (R) Researchers at University...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Evolution, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 07 19th, 2011 | No Comments

The Internet Is Rewiring our Brains

Psychologists have learned that the Internet is becoming a primary form of transactive memory, meaning the information is external or stored outside of the person. For some it is becoming far easier to reach for a keyboard than to try to extract a piece of information from the brain. Google and Yahoo!...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 06 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Baseball’s Curse of the Baby Blues

The eyes have it. A couple of years ago former Baltimore Orioles coach Buck Showalter appeared on ESPN during a Baseball Tonight segment called Scouting the Body, all about what recruiters look for physically in an ideal baseball player. He pointed out that the best players have brown eyes. While there...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Scientainment, The Brain, Video on 06 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Music in the Name of Science

An exhibition which doubles as a huge, interactive science experiment has opened in New York. The Dublin Science Gallery’s Biorhythm: Music and the Body show immerses its visitors in a world of sonic experiences to see how they respond to different musical stimuli. Tara Cleary from Reuters reports. But...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Environment, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 06 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Cell Phones Dial Up Fresh Radiation Concern

For years scientists have argued that cell phones could be harmful to our health. But it wasn’t until last year that the first long term study suggested a relationship between prolonged cell phone use and brain cancer. And even that preliminary finding didn’t get people to turn off their...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 05 16th, 2011 | No Comments

Neuroscience is the Next Frontier for Patrick Kennedy

Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is trying to unite neuroscientists, government and advocacy groups to improve funding and research in brain science. On the 50th Anniversary of his uncle John’s moonshot speech that launched the space age, leading scientists, philanthropists and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 05 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Pain Pill Makes Love Hurt Less

Emotional pain, like that associated with a heartbreak hurts with the same intensity as physical pain and it lights up the same part of the brain. Now researchers have discovered that the pain is just as real and can be reduced with a common painkiller. It’s been said that love hurts, especially...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Inventions, The Brain, Video on 04 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Neural Stem Cell Treatment Sees a Future

The key to successful stem cell research and treatment is being able to create stable, self-renewing stem cells. For years, scientists have been able to make massive quantities of stem cells to enhance brain activity. The problem was that when they tested their treatments in mice, the stem cells often...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, The Brain, Video on 04 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Fake Food Color Linked to ADHD

The consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest wants to ban all artificial color from foods. At the very least the organization wants the Food and Drug Administration to put warning labels on foods containing some dyes, like Yellow 5 and Red 40, which have been linked to Attention...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 03 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Reading Dyslexia Differently

Scientists studying the brains of dyslexic children say they can now accurately predict which child will overcome their disability and which will continue to struggle to read throughout later life. A Stanford University research team has been using brain scans on children with dyslexia and they can...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Physiology, Psychology, The Brain, Video on 03 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Texas Oil Tycoon Pushes the Edges of Science

Just because Texas oil tycoon Tom Slick died in a plane crash in 1962 doesn’t mean his vision died with him. In fact, his legacy has grown a few lone-star state institutions that bring in over $1 billion a year to the San Antonio area. The Southwest Research Institute and the Texas Biomedical...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Discoveries, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 02 22nd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Cell Phone Study Finds Increase in Brain Activity

Radio frequency exposure to cell phones may increase brain activity and glucose metabolism. Scientists don’t know what it means for our health but a new National Institutes of Health study has found that hand held cell phone use stimulates brain activity. Dr. Nora Volkow says the study shows that...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 02 1st, 2011 | No Comments

10 Amazing Facts about the Human Body

Find out just how incredible the human body is. How fast do you sneeze? How much heat does your body produce? How much blood do you pump? How many miles of nerves do you have in your body? How many scents can your nose detect? How much saliva will you produce over your lifetime?

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Food and Nutrition, Marine Science, Space, The Brain, Video on 01 31st, 2011 | No Comments

10 Most Popular Scientific Misconceptions

10 scientific facts you thought you knew…that most people don’t. Is there gravity in space? How long can a goldfish hold a memory? How much of our brains do we really use? Does lightning ever strike twice? How long does it take to digest chewing gum? Does a microwave cook food from the inside...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Consumer Safety, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, The Brain, Video on 01 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Scientist Haunted by Misuse of Drugs He Invented

David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he’s haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths. He was hoping that his work would lead to new ways of treating psychiatric disorders not become club drugs. Today the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Psychology, The Brain, Video on 12 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Science of Generosity

Is there a gene that determines how generous you are? That’s one of the questions that a new research initiative at the University of Notre Dame hopes to answer. The new Science of Generosity Initiative has just finished funding 13 projects that will help science (mostly social science) better...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 12 16th, 2010 | No Comments

HIV Cure on the Horizon

A man is cured, doctors are stunned and patients have new hope. It could be the cure for HIV. It worked on one man in Germany and now a San Francisco company is trying to do replicate the results in the United States. “We have this patient in Berlin who develops leukemia, gets a bone marrow transplant...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 12 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Doctor Dad Treats Son’s MS but Is it Good Science?

The medical community is questioning a San Diego doctor’s ‘”miracle’” treatment for multiple sclerosis. Dr. David Hubbard prescribed a revolutionary treatment–venoplasty–to help alleviate the symptoms of MS that his 27-year-old son Devon was experiencing. If...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Climate, Computer Science, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Science Policy, The Brain, Video on 11 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Obama Awards National Science Medals

President Obama bestowed medals on researchers and scientists in a ceremony in the East Room on Wednesday. The President presented the National Medal of Science to ten eminent researchers and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to three individuals and a three-person team for a wide range...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 08 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment

New Microchip Talks to Brain Cells

The science fiction world of bionic hybrid people is one step closer to reality now that a University of Calgary team has discovered how to get brain cells to “talk” to a silicon microchip. The applications range from an implantable chip eventually being able to help people control chronic...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments

The Love Hormone Field Test

It’s a rare occasion when a scientist can test a theory outside the confines of a laboratory. So when Paul Zak got a call from New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes to take her blood at her wedding, he just couldn’t say no. Dr. Zak is an ocytoxin researcher who studies social indicators of...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 11 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Tired from Tryptophan

Did you fall into a turkey coma? Well, if you did don’t blame it on the much-maligned tryptophan. It was more likely something else, like all the starch in stuffing or sugars in candied yams that made you need a nap. New research is finding that carbohydrate-rich meals help tryptophan cross the...

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