Neuroscience

The tiny brain of a honeybee is apparently able to calculate small numbers' addition and subtraction. Annie Sneed reports.

Recent research explains why you’ve never noticed before

An experiment that restored cellular function to pigs’ brains hours after death holds the potential for advancing neuroscience research

At an April 9th event sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and produced by Scientific American that honored Nobel and Kavli Prize winners, neuroscientists James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace talked about the physiology of hearing and the possibility of restoring hearing loss.  

The restoration of some structures and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death could intensify debates about when human organs should be removed for transplantation, warn Stuart Youngner and Insoo Hyun

The anesthetic-cum-party drug restores the ability to make connections among brain cells

Discovery of odorous markers for neurodegenerative disease

Social neuroscientists ask what happens at the level of neurons when you tell someone a story or a group watches movies

Researchers are developing a device that could restore olfaction, much as a cochlear implant restores hearing

A new generation of brain-machine interfaces can deduce what a person wants

An experimental drug for hepatitis D triggers a cellular waste disposal system to rid mice brains of the tau protein, a major culprit in neurodegenerative disease

We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex.