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Blood-pressure drug prevents epilepsy after brain injury
April 23, 2014
Study in rats shows that a common hypertension drug can nearly eliminate the epilepsy that often follows severe head injury. Nearly one in five cases of epilepsy is the result of head trauma.
Neuroscape Lab puts brain activity on vivid display
April 10, 2014
Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley's new high-tech lab records the brain and body in action.
Spinal cord therapy helps paraplegics move their legs
April 8, 2014
Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord.
Online registry aims to drive brain disease research
April 8, 2014
Project promises to cut time and cost of conducting clinical trials for brain diseases, while also helping scientists analyze and track brain functions.
New evidence that autism begins during pregnancy
April 3, 2014
Post-mortem studies reveal brain development changes that are linked to autism.
Preschoolers outsmart college students at figuring out gizmos
March 6, 2014
Tots outperform college students in certain learning tasks because they are more flexible and less biased in their ideas about cause and effect.
Better batting through brain training
February 18, 2014
UC Riverside’s baseball team struck out less frequently in the 2013 season after taking part in brain-training research that significantly improved the vision of individual players.
Chronic stress primes brain for mental illness
February 11, 2014
Chronic stress' impact on stem cells in the brain in turn affects memory and learning. This could explain why stress leads to mental illness later in life.
More pesticides linked to Parkinson's
February 5, 2014
A person's genetic makeup could increase his or her chance of developing the debilitating disease two- to six-fold after pesticide exposure.
How the brain recognizes speech
January 31, 2014
The shaping of sound by our mouths leaves an acoustic trail the brain can follow.