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  The purpose and goal of brain mapping is to advance the understanding of the relationship between structure and function in the human brain. Scientists in this field seek to gain knowledge of the physical processes that underlie human sensation, attention awareness and cognition. These results are immediately applicable to surgical intervention, to the design of medical interventions and to the treatment of psychological and psychiatric disorders.

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06/17
NIH launches Dietary Supplement Label Database
Searchable collection contains product information and ingredients from labels of dietary supplement…
06/17
NIBIB Biomedical Technology Service Centers (P30)
Funding Opportunity PAR-13-249 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. NIBIB will …
06/14
NCATS to announce awards for Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules program
Media briefing with NCATS Director Christopher P. Austin, M.D.…
06/13
Two gene variants may predict who will benefit from breast cancer prevention drugs
NIH-supported discovery could advance individualized care of high-risk women.…
06/13
New exhibition makes genome accessible to public
Unique NIH-Smithsonian collaboration unlocks the present and future of genome science.…
06/13
Scan predicts whether therapy or meds will best lift depression
Biomarker could point the way past trial-and-error inefficiencies.…
06/12
Researchers discover two-step mechanism of inner ear tip link regrowth
Mechanism offers potential for interventions that could save hearing.…
06/10
NIH?s NCCAM welcomes four new advisory council members
The council serves as the principal advisory body to NCCAM, the lead federal agency for research on …
06/04
NIH, ONC, and EPA award $100,000 to winner of health and technology challenge
New technology creates a personal, portable, and wearable air pollution sensor.…
06/03
NIH to fund clinical research network on antibacterial resistance
Researchers at Duke University will lead the initiative.…
06/03
Fact sheet: Impact of sequestration on the National Institutes of Health
FY2013 operating plans, estimated numbers, impact and frequently asked questions.…
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06/18
New virus isolated from patients with severe brain infections
A study led by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme in Vietnam describes a new…
06/17
Blocking Overactive Receptor in Alzheimer?s Recovers Memory Loss and More
Researchers show memory pathology in older mice can be reversed by blocking the activity of a specif…
06/17
Artificial sweetener a potential treatment for Parkinson's disease
Mannitol is widely used as an artificial sweetener in gum and candy, and, with FDA sanction, is also…
06/17
Study finds the sweet spot -- and the screw-ups -- that make or break environmental collective actions
Sustainability programs are a Goldilocks proposition -- some groups are too big, some are too small,…
06/17
News From Frontiers In Microbiology, Oncology, Neuroscience
Frontiers in Microbiology Insights into fungal communities in composts revealed by 454-pyrosequencin…
06/17
Blocking overactive receptor in Alzheimer's recovers memory loss and more
A new study shows that memory pathology in older mice with Alzheimer's disease can be reversed with …
06/17
Missing enzyme linked to drug addiction
A missing brain enzyme increases concentrations of a protein related to pain-killer addiction, accor…
06/17
Researchers Develop Novel Drug That Reverses Loss of Brain Connections in Models of Alzheimer?s
Researchers have developed an experimental drug, NitroMemantine, to boost brain synapses lost in Alz…
06/17
Rare Genomic Mutations Found in Ten Families with Early-Onset, Familial Alzheimer?s Disease
A new study uncovers unique changes in DNA structure in genes important to neuronal function in rela…
06/16
Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes
Major international projects are underway that are aimed at creating a comprehensive catalogue of al…
06/14
Brain-Computer Interfaces Make New Tasks As Simple As Waving A Hand
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control …
06/14
A Turbocharger for Nerve Cells
A new study has discovered a key mechanism that boosts the signalling functions of neurons in the br…
06/13
Overeating And Weight Gain Contributing To Onset Of Diabetes Could Be Related To A Deficit In Reward Circuits In The Brain
Using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the brain, researchers have identified a sweet s…
06/13
Pediatric PET Imaging Of Gliomas Gets A Boost With An Easier-To-Manufacture Imaging Agent
A relatively new weapon in the fight against childhood brain cancer has emerged that improves upon s…
06/12
Outlawing Psychoactive Drugs "Censors Science"
Having laws making it illegal to possess cannabis, magic mushroom, MDMA (ecstasy) and other psychoac…
06/12
Heading The Ball Frequently In Soccer May Lead To Brain Injury
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that soccer play…
06/12
Low Birth-Weight Children With Reduced Brain Volume Often Struggle Academically
An analysis of recent data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 97 adolescents who were part of …
06/12
53BP1 is a reader of the DNA-damage-induced H2A Lys?15 ubiquitin mark
This study shows that 53BP1 recruitment to sites of DNA damage involves dual recognition of H4K20me2…
06/12
Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution
Coccolithophores have influenced the global climate for over 200 million years. These marine phytopl…
06/12
Fetal Neuromaturation Associated with Mother's Exposure to DDT and Other Environmental Contaminants
A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has for the first …
06/12
New tasks become as simple as waving a hand with brain-computer interfaces
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control …
06/11
Epilepsy, Periodic Paralyses And Strokes Most Common Neurological Comorbidities Of Migraine Headaches In Children
Migraines in children and adolescents occur jointly with other neurological, psychiatric or somatic …
06/09
Antibiotic treatment expands the resistance reservoir and ecological network of the phage metagenome
The mammalian gut ecosystem has considerable influence on host physiology, but the mechanisms that s…
06/09
EndMT contributes to the onset and progression of cerebral cavernous malformations
Cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) is a vascular dysplasia, mainly localized within the brain and…
06/09
Memory?Related Hippocampal Activity Can Be Measured Robustly Using fMRI at 7 Tesla
ABSTRACT High field strength functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has developed rapidly. How…
06/09
Brainstem Raphe Alterations Depicted by Transcranial Sonography Do Not Result in Serotonergic Functional Impairment
ABSTRACT In transcranial sonography (TCS), hypoechogenic signal of mesencephalic raphe structures ha…
06/09
A single pair of interneurons commands the Drosophila feeding motor program
Many feeding behaviours are the result of stereotyped, organized sequences of motor patterns. These …
06/09
Different Stages of White Matter Changes in the Original HDLS Family Revealed by Advanced MRI Techniques
CONCLUSIONWe describe HDLS changes in three temporal stages of development corresponding to lesions …
06/06
Multimodality Evaluation of Dural Arteriovenous Fistula with CT Angiography, MR with Arterial Spin Labeling, and Digital Subtraction Angiography: Case Report
ABSTRACT Dural arteriovenous fistulae (DAVF) are cerebrovascular lesions with pathologic shunting in…
06/02
High-resolution analysis with novel cell-surface markers identifies routes to iPS cells
The generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells presents a challenge to normal developmental …
06/01
Counterfactual thinking: an fMRI study on changing the past for a better future
Recent studies suggest that a brain network mainly associated with episodic memory has a more gener…
06/01
Frontal theta and beta synchronizations for monetary reward increase visual working memory capacity
Visual working memory (VWM) capacity is affected by motivational influences; however, little is kno…
06/01
Reward system dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders
Although it has been suggested that social deficits of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are related…
06/01
Interactions between mood and the structure of semantic memory: event-related potentials evidence
Recent evidence suggests that affect acts as modulator of cognitive processes and in particular tha…
06/01
Transient and sustained neural responses to death-related linguistic cues
Recent research showed that perception of death-related vs death-unrelated linguistic cues produced…
06/01
Self-determined, but not non-self-determined, motivation predicts activations in the anterior insular cortex: an fMRI study of personal agency
Neuroscientific studies on agency focus rather exclusively on the notion of who initiates and regul…
06/01
Neuronal correlates of social cognition in borderline personality disorder
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have severe problems in social interactions tha…
06/01
06/01
Oxytocin selectively increases perceptions of harm for victims but not the desire to punish offenders of criminal offenses
The neuropeptide oxytocin functions as a hormone and neurotransmitter and facilitates complex socia…
06/01
Situation and person attributions under spontaneous and intentional instructions: an fMRI study
This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research explores how observers make causal belie…
06/01
Does context matter in evaluations of stigmatized individuals? An fMRI study
The manner in which disparate affective responses shape attitudes toward other individuals has rece…
06/01
Electrophysiological responses to violations of expectation from eye gaze and arrow cues
Isolating processes within the brain that are specific to human behavior is a key goal for social n…
06/01
Neuroimaging self-esteem: a fMRI study of individual differences in women
Although neuroimaging studies strongly implicate the medial prefrontal cortex (ventral and dorsal),…
05/29
orco mutant mosquitoes lose strong preference for humans and are not repelled by volatile DEET
Female mosquitoes of some species are generalists and will blood-feed on a variety of vertebrate hos…
05/29
UCLA Headlines May 29, 2013
IN THE NEWS: Probiotic Yogurt Alters Brain Function A study by researchers at UCLA's Oppenheime…
05/26
Distinct behavioural and network correlates of two interneuron types in prefrontal cortex
Neurons in the prefrontal cortex exhibit diverse behavioural correlates, an observation that has bee…
05/22
Structural basis of histone H2A?H2B recognition by the essential chaperone FACT
Facilitates chromatin transcription (FACT) is a conserved histone chaperone that reorganizes nucleos…
05/19
Structural basis for alternating access of a eukaryotic calcium/proton exchanger
Eukaryotic Ca2+ regulation involves sequestration into intracellular organelles, and expeditious Ca2…
04/30
NeuroPod: April 2013
Making the brain see-through, treating disorders with electrical impulses, wonky statistics riddle n…
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At left: Your brain on shopping

How can my husband and I have such different approaches to the shopping experience? I attribute it to wiring in the brain, and I think it applies to many men and women out there.As a refresher, remember that the left brain is the logical, analytical side of the brain - it is the worker bee, focusing and analyzing one thing at a time. The right brain is free to play - it’s the home of imagination, emotional memory and bonding with others.With four times as many connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, women are four times as likely to tap into the right brain when encountering a situation. Many factors come into play when going through the shopping process for women - it’s all about the “big picture.”
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