Neuroscience

Hell in a handbasket?

So what is information technology doing to our brains? Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has written a book about the upside and the downside of a world...

Unconscious Decisions in the Brain

Already several seconds before we consciously make a decision its outcome can be predicted from unconscious activity in the brain....

Food Reward in the Absence of Taste Receptor Signaling

It is well accepted that palatability, or the property of being pleasurable to the sense of taste, is a major factor leading to the overconsumption of...

Novel Pathway Required for Normals Reproductive Development

Gene defects cause infertility, lack of sense of smell in humans and mice...

Beauty and the Brain

What makes a work of art beautiful?...

Nervous Conduction of Excitation Without Action Potentials

The functioning of neuronal networks involves the conduction of excitation along the axon which is the wire-like part of the neuron. This excitation was...

'Slowed Brain-Activity' in Frequent Mobile Phone Users

The present study employs standardized data acquired from the Brain Resource International Database to study the relationship between mobile phone (GSM)...

What our Eyes Get up to When We Read

In this article I briefly discuss some recent research from our laboratory that investigated how we coordinate our eyes binocularly when we read. Our...

New Research Gives Insight into Biological Mechanisms Involved in Cerebral Aneurysms

Research using single gene knockout mice has led to a finding which confirms the importance of nitric oxide biochemistry in the formation of cerebral aneurysms...