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Familiar music could help people with brain damage Listening to a favourite song might boost the brain's ability to respond to other stimuli in people with disorders of consciousness. www.newscientist.com (08/29/2012) How To Learn in Your Sleep Subjects trained to sniff pleasant smells while asleep retain the conditioning when they wake up. www.nature.com (08/26/2012) Genome of Ancient Denisovans May Help Clarify Human Evolution New technology enabled scientists to obtain a high-precision genetic...

Getting Lost in a Good Book Can Help Keep You Healthy Increasing evidence says reading for pleasure isn’t just another leisure pursuit, it might actually be good for our mental and physical health too. www.dailymail.co.uk (08/25/2012) Childhood Music Classes 'Help Adult Hearing' Children who take music lessons have better hearing as adults, a study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests. www.bbc.co.uk (08/22/2012) Research Pinpoints Brain's 'Gullibility' Center Changes in the ventromedial area...

A Cup of Cocoa a Day May Help Memory in Elderly Drinking a cup of hot chocolate before bed may stave off memory problems in the elderly, research has suggested. www.telegraph.co.uk (08/18/2012) How the Brain Cleans Itself Fluids coursing through the nervous system could help clear the brain of toxic detritus that leads to Alzheimer's and Huntington's disorders. www.nature.com (08/16/2012) Probing the Youthful Brains of "Super Agers" A Northwestern University researcher has identified...

Children's Brains Change As They Learn To Think About Others Researchers have shown that activity in a certain region of the brain changes as children learn to reason about what other people might be thinking. www.medicalnewstoday.com (08/10/2012) Scientists Discover Stem Cells Responsible for Big Brains and Higher Functions Neuroscientists from The Scripps Institute have identified a specialized population of stem cells that have an impressive vocational calling: higher brain...

Musicians' Brains Might Have an Edge on Aging A study, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, shows that musical instrument training may reduce the effects of mental decline associated with aging. health.usnews.com (08/02/2012) Brain Imaging Can Predict How Intelligent You Are Research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that 10 percent of individual differences in intelligence can be explained by the strength of neural pathways connecting the left...

Scientists Control Monkey Behavior with Light for the First Time Researchers at Harvard and MIT attempted a modest experiment: To change the dynamics of a monkey’s eye movements by inserting and activating the light-sensitive protein in cells in a part of the brain known to be involved with eye movements. www.latimes.com (07/27/2012) Which Is Bigger: A Human Brain or the Universe? NPR science writer Robert Krulwich ponders the infinity...

If You’re Smart, Take a Hike Study says physical activity, particularly in wilderness settings, may actually make you smarter. www.care2.com (07/18/2012) New Drug for Alzheimer's Symptom Relief Shows Promise An experimental drug that activates a specific nicotine receptor in the brain improved measures of thinking and memory. www.reuters.com (07/18/2012) Mind Your Reps: Exercise, Especially Weight Lifting, Helps Keep the Brain Sharp Four new studies presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference add...

The latest version of Neurolucida features an array of automated enhancements that make neuron reconstruction and analysis faster and easier than ever before. Have you traced a dendritic arbor with AutoNeuron, or counted spines with the help of AutoSpine? Our upcoming webinar “Reconstructing and Analyzing Neurons with Neurolucida and its New Automated Advancements” covers these software enhancements, and more. Led by Staff Scientist Dan Peruzzi PhD,...

Cool Down With a Hot Drink? It's Not As Crazy As You Think Say Neuroscientists Hot tea might not sound like the most refreshing of drinks for a 100-degree day. But neuroscientists say that receptors in your mouth may send a cool message when they detect hot foods. www.npr.org (07/11/2012) Mayo Clinic Maps Brain, Finds Alzheimer’s Patients Drive Differently The results of a new study suggest varying brain activity...

Bee Brain Study Links Reversal Of Aging-Related Decline To Social Involvement When older honeybees take on tasks usually handled by younger bees, aging of their brains is effectively reversed, a new study finds. www.huffingtonpost.com (07/05/2012) Brain Bluffs Humans Differently Than Machines The temporal parietal junctions of poker players behaved differently when they were bluffing another human versus bluffing a computer. www.scientificamerican.com (07/05/2012) Diabetes Drug Stimulates New Brain Cell Growth, Could Aid...