Here is what we are reading today: boosting the brain’s sensory performance with ultrasound “”Ultrasound has great potential for bringing unprecedented resolution to the growing trend of mapping the human brain’s connectivity,” said William “Jamie” Tyler, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, who led the study. Read more…
My daughters and I collaborated in a nice cross disciplinary study. Here is what I am reading today: the valporate pill “(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at Harvard University has found that the drug Valproate (valproic acid—normally used as a mood stabilizer) appears to offer a reset switch Read more…
Here is what we are reading today: beating performance anxiety “”Anxiety is incredibly pervasive. People have a very strong intuition that trying to calm down is the best way to cope with their anxiety, but that can be very difficult and ineffective,” said study author Alison Wood Brooks, PhD, of Read more…
Here is what we are reading today: optogenetics anyone?? ““For most of my colleagues in neuroscience to say ‘I’ll be able to incorporate [optogenetics] into my daily work with nonhuman primates,’ you have to get beyond ‘It does seem to sort of work’,” said study senior author David Sheinberg, professor Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: do you listen to your stomach clock? “The discovery, published today in The Journal of Neuroscience, could lead to new information about how the gut signals to our brains about when we’re full, and when to keep eating. In the University’s Nerve-Gut Research Laboratory, Read more…