Neanderthal brains ‘were like modern human ones at birth’
March 24th, 2011 - 10:54 am ICT by ANI
London, Mar 24 (ANI): Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany have discovered that Neanderthal brains were like modern human ones at birth but developed differently to ours ... Read more...
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Memory ‘may be built with Lego-like building blocks of knowledge’
March 18th, 2011 - 2:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 18 (ANI): How does our brain create memories and store information?While many neuroscientists consider the human brain as being totally malleable, a Swiss scientist has suggested that its neurons may ... Read more...
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Flashing brain with light can erase fear
March 10th, 2011 - 4:43 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 10 (IANS) Suffering from panic attacks and anxiety? Help may be at hand as researchers have pinpointed a brain mechanism that makes individuals fearless.The condition can severely damage ... Read more...
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In the blind, brain parts used for vision can help understand languages
March 1st, 2011 - 4:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 1 (ANI): A new study claims that in blind people, the parts of brain that are used for processing vision, are recruited for language processing.The find by MIT neuroscientists shows ... Read more...
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Why the blind have a superior sense of touch
February 23rd, 2011 - 3:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 23 (ANI): Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences have discovered why blind people tend to have a superior sense of touch.The team of Robert ... Read more...
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Cell phone use does affect brain but health consequences unknown
February 23rd, 2011 - 11:10 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 23 (ANI): A new study has found that increasing use of cell phones is linked to rise in brain glucose metabolism, a marker of brain activity, in the area closest ... Read more...
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Two genes key to wiring brain’s nerve cells
February 14th, 2011 - 2:08 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 14 (IANS) Scientists have now been able to show that growing nerve cells realise when they've reached their target area in the brain -- thanks to the interaction of ... Read more...
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Humankind can store 295 exabytes of data: Study
February 11th, 2011 - 6:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 11 (ANI): A study has calculated the world's total technological capacity - how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute - and it amounts to 295 exabytes."We ... Read more...
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New finding may have implications for schizophrenia, autism
February 10th, 2011 - 6:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): A surprising mechanism that controls brain formation has been unveiled by a study from The Scripps Research Institute.The findings have implications for understanding a host of diseases, including ... Read more...
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Brain ‘network maps’ reveal clue to mental decline in old age
February 9th, 2011 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI): An Australian study has revealed that the human brain operates as a highly interconnected small-world network - and not as a collection of discrete regions as previously believed ... Read more...
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Antipsychotics for schizophrenia linked to subtle loss in brain volume
February 8th, 2011 - 1:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 08 (ANI): A new study has shown that patients with schizophrenia who take antipsychotic medications lose a small but measurable amount of brain tissue over time.Progressive changes in brain volume ... Read more...
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New therapy shows promise against brain cancer
February 2nd, 2011 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 02 (ANI): Scientists have successfully destroyed tumours of human brain cancer cells in the first animal tests of a minimally invasive treatment that zaps glioma tumours with heat.Rice University bioengineers ... Read more...
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Now, an iPhone app that can read minds!
January 14th, 2011 - 11:32 am ICT by ANI
London, Jan 14 (ANI): Experts have come up with a new application for the iPhone that has the ability to read minds.The XWave enables users to control on-screen objects with their minds ... Read more...
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How the human brain shops ‘to find the best candy bar’
January 6th, 2011 - 11:46 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that our brain cells can be quite the savvy shoppers, capable of finding the best candy bar we wish to eat.Rick Jenison of ... Read more...
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Human brain ’shrinking’ since 20,000 yrs ‘making us stupider day by day’
January 1st, 2011 - 11:23 am ICT by ANI
London, Jan 1 (ANI): A new study has said that the human brain has been shrinking since the last 20,000 years, suggesting that we may be getting dumber day by day."Over the ... Read more...
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‘Facebook feature’ in brain vital to your social life
December 30th, 2010 - 12:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 30 (ANI): A tiny structure in the human brain that scientists have dubbed 'Facebook feature' may determine a rich and varied social life among humans.Scientists at the Northeastern University ... Read more...
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Set of proteins linked to over 130 brain diseases discovered
December 20th, 2010 - 3:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 20 (ANI): Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Edinburgh University have studied human brain samples to isolate a set of proteins that account for over 130 brain diseases.The ... Read more...
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Brain fully ‘matures’ in middle age: Study
December 16th, 2010 - 5:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 16 (ANI): Contrary to previous beliefs, a new study has suggested that brain does not stop developing until late 40s.Earlier scientists used to believe that brain stop physically evolving in ... Read more...
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You are not as adult as you think!
December 16th, 2010 - 4:05 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 16 (IANS) You may still have something of a teenager in you even in your adulthood as the human brain keeps developing till we are in our 40s, says a ... Read more...
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Scientists grow human brain stem cells in rats
December 11th, 2010 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 11 (ANI): Scientists in the US have made a major breakthrough that has the potential for people with brain damage, caused by epilepsy or Parkinson's for example, to use their ... Read more...
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Blood vessel dysfunction linked to heart disease also plays role in Alzheimer’s
December 3rd, 2010 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): A new study has suggested that a dysfunction in the lining of blood vessels that is linked to cardiovascular illness also plays a role in the development of ... Read more...
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Smoking can reduce thickness of the brain
December 3rd, 2010 - 11:38 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): A new study has found that smoking can reduce the thickness of the human brain.Researchers compared cortical thickness in volunteers, both smokers and never-smokers, who were without medical ... Read more...
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Supercomputers could some day think as fast as human brain
December 2nd, 2010 - 2:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 2 (ANI): Researcher at IBM's silicon integrated nanophotonics group at Yorktown Heights, in New York, unveiled a new type of computer chip that integrates both electrical and optical nano-devices on ... Read more...
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Mind’s ability to predict makes us less attentive
November 23rd, 2010 - 5:18 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): The human brain has the ability to store millions of sounds and sights, which get recorded into a database that the mind refers to the next time it ... Read more...
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Human creativity may have evolved as a way to help parents bond with kids
November 16th, 2010 - 5:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): Human creativity may have evolved not in response to sexual selection as some scientists believe but as a way to help parents bond with their children and to ... Read more...
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Fruit fly study sheds light on brain development and diseases
November 13th, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): Scientists have identified a new genetic marker that makes fruit fly a better model for brain development and diseases.The human brain is composed of 100 billion individual nerve ... Read more...
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Wandering mind may lead to unhappiness
November 12th, 2010 - 12:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): People spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about what isn't going on around them, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy, says a new research.The study was ... Read more...
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How the human brain recognizes and retains patterns, images
November 11th, 2010 - 5:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 11 (ANI): A team of scientists has discovered that an early part of the brain's visual system rewires itself when people are trained to perceive patterns and has shown this ... Read more...
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Songbirds’ songs ‘may shed light on how humans learn language and speech’
November 9th, 2010 - 7:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 09 (ANI): Understanding how songbirds sing may provide some insight into how the human brain learns language and produces speech.Dezhe Jin of the Penn State University explained that understanding how ... Read more...
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Why it took early humans almost 2mn yrs to develop hand-held stone axe
November 4th, 2010 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): A new study suggests that Stone Age humans were only able to develop relatively advanced tools after their brains evolved a greater capacity for complex thought.Researchers wanted to ... Read more...
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Daffodils may harbour brain cancer cure
November 2nd, 2010 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 02 (ANI): Scientists have discovered narciclasine, a natural compound found in daffodil bulbs, may be a powerful therapeutic against biologically aggressive forms of human brain cancers."We are planning to move ... Read more...
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Like humans, chimps too prefer using their right hands
October 29th, 2010 - 2:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): A new study by Spanish scientists has revealed that humans are not the only species to prefer to use their right hand -- chimpanzees also share the trait. ... Read more...
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Study on ‘How much sleep do you really need’ might shock you
October 27th, 2010 - 3:40 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Oct 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) When it comes to sleep, it has often been debated about the actual number of hours that the body requires.aHowever several studies have revealed that babies ... Read more...
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Man Complains To Police About Buying Bad Pot, Lands Himself In Jail
October 26th, 2010 - 7:51 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Oct 26, (THAINDIAN NEWS) It seems that US citizens have already taken Proposition 19 of legalizing marijuana too seriously even before its implementation. A southwestern Pennsylvanian man complained to police ... Read more...
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Back up for human brain possible within two decades
October 21st, 2010 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 21 (IANS) Back-up for the human brain, including its entire memory, will be possible within the next two decades.
Award-winning scientist Raymond Kurzweil, 62, told 500 guests at a sponsored ... Read more...
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