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New research has discovered that one protein, called PITRM1, which is found in mitochondria, otherwise known as the powerhouses of the cell, may be involved in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Pediatricians routinely use growth charts to measure patients’ height, weight and head circumference to look for abnormalities.

A group of researchers succeeded in reproduction of the same phenomenon as memory consolidation by using organotypic slice cultures of the cerebral cortex and revealed that stress interfered with memory consolidation. As cultures can be maintained for …

Pathological gamblers have a stronger brain reaction to so-called near-miss events: losing events that come very close to a win. Neuroscientists show this in fMRI scans of twenty-two pathological gamblers and just as many healthy controls.

According to a pioneering, quantitative study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country published by the PNAS, becoming unemployed changes people’s morals around the distribution of money.

Three-year mark shows little difference between treated and untreated individuals.

Around half of all heterosexual men and women potentially carry so-called homosexuality genes that are passed on from one generation to the next.

Pathological gamblers have a stronger brain reaction to so-called near-miss events: losing events that come very close to a win.

A common antihistamine used to treat symptoms of allergies and the common cold, called clemastine fumarate, partially reversed damage to the visual system in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in a preliminary study.

Scientists propose a new way of understanding of how the brain processes unconscious information into our consciousness. According to the model, consciousness arises only in time intervals of up to 400 milliseconds, with gaps of unconsciousness in betw…