14-10-10 There is scientific evidence to suggest that life can continue after death, according to the largest ever medical study carried out on the subject. 医学研究表明，在人死亡之后，生命其实并未停止，灵魂还在活动。 A team based in the UK has spent the las...

14-10-04 A new study published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 2 could rewrite the story of ape and human brain evolution. While the neocortex of the brain has been called the crowning achievement of evolution and the biological substrat...

14-09-30 如果你在发短信的同时又在一边看电视一边听收音机，在听了这个研究结果后你可能会想停下来只专心地做一样事情，因为研究表明，一心多用会让大脑萎缩。 If you are sending a text, watching the TV or listening to the radio, you may want to stop and give this you...

14-09-21 By 2050, a completely new type of human will evolve as a result of radical new technology, behaviour, and natural selection. 受到新科技、新行为和自然选择的影响，将有一种全新的人类在2050年之前进化出来。 This is according to Cadell Last, a researcher...

14-09-20 A sleep-promoting circuit located deep in the primitive brainstem has revealed how we fall into deep sleep. Discovered by researchers at Harvard School of Medicine and the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, this is onl...

14-09-15 Brain inflammation can rapidly disrupt our ability to retrieve complex memories of similar but distinct experiences, according to UC Irvine neuroscientists Jennifer Czerniawski and John Guzowski. Their study -- which appears today in The Journal of...

14-09-03 When we learn, we associate a sensory experience either with other stimuli or with a certain type of behaviour. The neurons in the cerebral cortex that transmit the information modify the synaptic connections that they have with the other neurons. A...

14-09-01 Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, improves memory, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The discovery opens a new field...

14-08-19 Depression and anxiety are twice as common in people newly-diagnosed with Parkinson's disease compared with the general population, research suggests. 研究显示，抑郁和焦虑在帕金森综合症初诊患者中出现的几率是普通人群的两倍。 Writing in the journal Ne...

14-08-13 Testosterone（睾酮） , a steroid hormone, is well known to contribute to aggressive behavior in males, but the neural circuits through which testosterone exerts（发挥） these effects have not been clear. Prior studies found that the administration o...