Health
Super Bowl Success May Go to Late-Risers
Sleeping patterns might be the newest excuse for lackluster athletic performances
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Health
Molecular Clocks Scattered throughout Your Body (Not Just in the Brain) Keep Your Tissues Humming
Genes in the liver, pancreas and other tissues (not just the brain) keep the various parts of the body in sync. Timing miscues may lead to diabetes, depression and other illnesses
Health
As Cuba–U.S. Relations Thaw, Medical Researchers Still Struggle to Connect
The economic embargo is still in place, so warming connections between the countries can only take biomedicine so far, scientists say
Mind & Brain
Genetic Memory: How We Know Things We Never Learned
I met my first savant 52 years ago and have been intrigued with that remarkable condition ever since. One of the most striking and consistent things in the many savants I have seen is that that they clearly know things they never learned...
Mind & Brain
Magnetic Stimulation May Halt Rumination in Depression
Transcranial magnetic stimulation could correct faulty connectivity
Mind & Brain
"Autisms" a More Appropriate Term than "Autism," Geneticists Say
The DNA of affected individuals varies remarkably, researchers say
Mind & Brain
Warped Brain Lobes Could Underlie Depression Symptoms
Wraparound occipital lobes found to be highly common in depression
Mind & Brain
Video-Based Intervention Helps Babies at High Risk of Autism
Babies of parents who completed lessons on whow to work with their infants were moderately more engaged with other people and showed more social behaviors
Neuroscience
Depression Tweaks the Brain's Disappointment Circuit
An unusual chemical balancing act helps explain why people with depression attend more closely to negative information
Behavior
Accidental Genius
A blow to the head can sometimes unmask hidden artistic or intellectual gifts. Might we all have hidden capacities that could be unleashed without brain injury?
Mind & Brain
Dyslexia Can Deliver Benefits
With reading difficulties can come other cognitive strengths
Health
Beef from Former Mad Cow Epicenter Could Hit U.S. Shelves This Year
After nearly 16 years, the U.S. has agreed to import beef from Ireland—the first European country to get the go-ahead since the epidemic of mad cow disease swept the continent In the 1980s and 1990s...
Health
Get the New Skinny on Dietary Fat
What is the new consensus on whether fat is good or bad for you?
Mind & Brain
Blood Test Tells How Long Concussion Symptoms Will Last
The Sunday after Thanksgiving last year proved tragic for family and friends of 22-year-old Kosta Karageorge. The defensive tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes was found dead that day after apparently shooting himself in the head...
Mind & Brain
Coffee and Tea May Protect the Brain
Daily drinkers have lower rates of depression and cognitive decline
Neurology
Bio Bigwigs Go after Drugs for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ALS
Lists of the biggest challenges in brain science often start—or end—with consciousness. “End” because consciousness is considered so overwhelming a hack that it merits coming last on the list—the ultimate challenge...
Mind & Brain
Autism Risk Linked to Particulate Air Pollution
Children whose mothers were exposed to high levels of fine particulate pollution in late pregnancy have up to twice the risk of developing autism as children of mothers breathing cleaner air, scientists reported...
Google's Top Searches of 2014
Americans looked to Google for information on Ebola, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and the actor Robin Williams’s suicide this year—all of which ranked among the hottest search terms of 2014...
Mind & Brain
Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity
Levels of a protein fragment in the blood paralleled how long head injuries benched hockey players. Ingrid Wickelgren reports
Mind & Brain
Exercise Counteracts Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's
Regular physical activity may correct the brain's metabolism to stave off dementia
