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Green vegetables, nuts and berries are among the foods that could improve our brain function. Photo: Shutterstock can eating certain foods make you smarter? We pick healthy foods to look after our bodies, but research shows certain healthy choices can ...

Background noise is more annoying to some people than to others, because the brain treats noise in different ways. Photo: Colourbox   Noise sensitive persons can blame their brain Some people are more sensitive to background noise than others. This ...

UC Davis neuroscientists are using virtual reality to investigate how memories are organized. Graduate student Halle Dimsdale-Zucker showed subjects movies created with virtual sketching software and asked them questions about objects inside the houses. She was able to show that ...

The brain circuitry that controls innate, or instinctive, behaviors such as mating and fighting was thought to be genetically hardwired. New findings from the Anderson laboratory suggest that this is not the case. Credit: Caltech   Nature or Nurture? Innate ...

Sleep is the time for our brain to reboot. Hernan Sanchez/Unsplash, CC BY-SA   Why our brain needs sleep, and what happens if we don’t get enough of it Many of us have experienced the effects of sleep deprivation: feeling ...

An artist’s rendering of gut bacteria. Credit: Caltech   Gut Bacteria May Play Role in Onset of Multiple Sclerosis The presence of “good-guy” and “bad-guy” microbes increases or decreases disease symptoms in mice New research conducted at Caltech and UC ...

A version of the ceramic skull implant developed by a UC Riverside-led team of researchers. David Baillot, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering   Getting Therapeutic Sound Waves Through Thick Skulls Ceramic implant material developed at UC Riverside will expand the ...

  Brainiacs Win Big UCSB Brain Initiative wins Hearst Foundation award to amplify interdisciplinary effort By Shelly Leachman One of life’s biggest mysteries is right inside our heads. It’s the brain, and its biggest secret — how the brain gives ...

The researchers used the engineered viral vector AAV-PHP.S to label neurons lining the digestive tract with a cocktail of three distinct fluorescent proteins. Due to the stochastic uptake of viruses encoding either a blue, green or red fluorescent protein, cells ...

Overexpression of the neuropeptide prokineticin 2 (Prok2) results in an increase in expression of the sleep-promoting neuropeptide galanin (shown in white) when zebrafish are kept in the light, but not when they are kept in the dark, compared to wild ...

Gif In order to note how minor changes in face shape are registered in the brain, the Tsao laboratory developed a system of 50 points (shown as white dots) to measure those small changes. Credit: Tsao laboratory   Cracking the ...

Researchers in the laboratory of Michael Roukes have created a new type of optical brain probe for studying and mapping animal brains in vivo. The ultrathin silicon-based probes are shown here next to a penny for scale. Credit: Roukes Lab/Caltech ...

A mouse tibia that has been rendered transparent with Bone CLARITY. Stem cells appear distributed throughout the bone in red. The ability to see bone stem cell behavior is crucial for testing new osteoporosis treatments. Credit: Science Translational Medicine, Greenbaum, ...

A noninvasive brain-computer interface based on EEG recordings from the scalp. Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), Photo by Mark Stone, CC BY-ND Click for a full size image   Melding mind and machine: How close are we? Just as ...

Hominin skull casts (L-R) Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis. Roger Seymour/South Australian Museum, Author provided Click for a full size image   How our species got smarter: through a rush of blood to the head ...

The fruit fly flight simulator. Credit: Caltech Click for a full size image   Small but Mighty: Fruit Fly Muscles Fruit flies are capable of impressive aerial maneuvers, as is grudgingly acknowledged by anyone who has unsuccessfully tried to swat ...

Negative emotional experience leaves a trace in the brain, which makes us more vulnerable, said Alexei Morozov, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Click for a full size image   Observing Fear ...

Zenobia Ahmed / The Conversation, CC BY-ND Click for a full size image   Does my brain really freeze when I eat ice cream? It’s a long, hot summer’s day and you’re looking forward to an ice cream. But within ...

Artist’s concept depicting microbes in the gut instigating changes in the brain that can lead to Parkinson’s disease. People with Parkinson’s harbor distinct gut bacteria that influence the disease’s severity. Credit: Caltech Click for a full size image Parkinson’s Disease ...

Stanford postdoctoral fellow Tatiana Engel works with a graduate student in the Boahen Lab. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero) Click for a full size image Brain waves Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, Stanford ...