neurology
18/03/2018 - 14:29
But Shakespeare’s age-old narrative of decay, decrepitude and ultimately oblivion no longer works. We have the means to rebuild and replace... →
30/10/2017 - 17:56
Until 10 months ago, Jerusalem – where one out of 10 Israelis live – and its metropolitan area had only one department of neurosurgery, at... →
06/10/2017 - 16:14
Some of the answers to art’s mysteries can be found in the realm of science. Art is considered the domain of the heart, but its... →
11/09/2017 - 14:54
They may have been looking too closely. When it comes to the neuroscience of learning, zeroing in on synapse action misses the forest for... →
22/09/2016 - 17:00
The project, which spanned five years, focused on a single healthy postmortem brain from a 34-year-old woman. The researchers started with... →
10/08/2016 - 14:56
“Placebo is a complex phenomenon in which the patient’s expectation of recovery affects his state of health,” she continued. “Expectation... →
30/12/2015 - 13:55
How do we make this astonishing journey? Until recently, neuroscientists were in the dark about this ‘first age of the brain’. But the... →
02/09/2015 - 12:04
Oliver Sacks, the eminent neurologist and writer garlanded as the “poet laureate of medicine”, has died at his home in New York City. He... →
17/01/2015 - 13:46
This case points to a sad fact about brain science. We don't often shout about it, but there are large gaps in even our basic understanding... →
04/01/2015 - 13:44
Blocking protein synthesis stops synaptic growth, preventing long-term memory formation
To reach their findings, the researchers "trained"... →
09/11/2014 - 18:16
Generating a “ghost”
The researchers first analyzed the brains of 12 patients with neurological disorders – mostly epilepsy – who have... →
25/08/2014 - 15:52
At the same time, chaos has its advantages. On a behavioral level, the arms race between predator and prey has wired erratic strategies... →