Brain Waves Create Internal Map of Our Surroundings
March 5th, 2011
Electrical oscillations (rhythmic wave activity) in the brain may play an important role in our ability to navigate through the physical world and store memories based on this experience, according to a study at the University of California, San ...
A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects
February 25th, 2011
The recent news about smoking was sensational: some people with damage to a prune-size slab of brain tissue called the insula were able to give up cigarettes instantly. Suppose scientists could figure out how to tweak the insula without damaging it. ...
Nutrition Advice From the China Study
January 13th, 2011
Six years ago a small Texas publisher released an obscure book written by a father-son research team. The work, based on a series of studies conducted in rural China and Taiwan, challenged the conventional wisdom about health and nutrition ...
