• 科学家发现大脑的失恋感情控制区

    10-07-07 Researchers have linked rejection by a romantic partner to brain activity associated with motivation, reward and addiction cravings(渴望) , according to a study published in the July issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology. Lucy Brown, Ph.D., clin...

  • 揭密针灸疗法的分子效应

    10-06-01 Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain. In a paper published online May 30 in Nature Neuroscience, a team at the University of Rochester Medical Center identifies the m...

  • 动物实验促进抗抑郁药的研究

    10-06-01 University of Michigan scientists have provided the most detailed picture yet of a key receptor in the brain that influences the effectiveness of serotonin-related antidepressants(抗抑郁药) , such as Prozac(百忧解) . The findings, which appear o...

  • 厌食症患者大脑体积会随体重增加而增大

    10-05-27 A team of American psychologists(心理学家) and neuroscientists(神经系统学家) have found that adult brain volume, which can be reduced by Anorexia Nervosa(神经性食欲缺乏) , can be regained. The research, published in the International Journal o...

  • 清理毛细血管栓塞新方法问世

    10-05-27 Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified in mice a previously unknown protective mechanism by which the smallest blood vessels(血管) remove blood clots(血凝块,血栓) and other blockages from the brain. T...

  • 改良麻疹病毒可能治愈小儿脑瘤

    10-05-27 The use of modified measles(麻疹) virus may represent a new treatment for a childhood brain tumor known as medulloblastoma(成神经管细胞瘤) , according to a new study appearing in Neuro-Oncology. Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant(恶性...

  • 手机使用与脑癌发病率研究未果

    10-05-18 The world's biggest investigation on possible links between cell phone use and brain tumours is inconclusive(非决定性的,无结果的) , according to a Canadian scientist who collaborated on the Interphone International Study Group. Jack Siemiatycki,...

  • 新生儿大脑发育机制之新发现

    10-05-16 With their French colleagues, researchers at the University of Helsinki have found a mechanism in the memory centre of newborn that adjusts(校准,调整) the maturation(成熟) of the brain for the information processing required later in life. The...

  • A Brain Transplant 脑移植手术

    10-05-13 A Brain Transplant The Brain Surgeon was about to perform a brain transplant. You have your choice of two brains, he told the patien. For $1000 you can have the brain of a psychologist, or for $10,000 you can have the brain of a politician. The pati...

  • 子宫内膜干细胞可修复受损脑细胞

    10-05-07 Stem cells derived from the endometrium ( uterine lining子宫内膜 ) and transplanted into the brains of laboratory mice with Parkinson's disease appear to restore functioning of brain cells damaged by the disease, according to a new study by Yale Sch...