Archive

Keyword - Neuroscience

- Total recall achieved - Premium content
  
  Activating a small fraction of neurons triggers complete memory.
  
  20 October 2009
- Flies get fright from false memories - Premium content
  
  Scientists use light activation to pinpoint where learning happens in fruit flies.
  
  15 October 2009
- Neuroscience: Small, furry … and smart - Premium content
  
  Researchers have engineered more than 30 strains of 'smart mice', revealing possible ways to boost human brains. But, as Jonah Lehrer finds, cognitive enhancement may come at a cost.
  
  14 October 2009
- Microscopic marvels: The big and the bold - Premium content
  
  3 June 2009
- Alzheimer's theory makes a splash - Premium content
  
  Neuroscientists probe idea that neuronal pruning may contribute to degenerative disorder.
  
  20 May 2009
- Neuroscientists claim growing pains - Premium content
  
  Manufacturer denies that common lab feed can cause some neuron cultures to fail.
  
  6 May 2009
- Brain imaging skewed - Premium content
  
  Double dipping of data magnifies errors in functional MRI scans.
  
  27 April 2009
- Neuroscience: One hundred years of Rita - Premium content
  
  From a home lab to the Italian Senate, by way of nerve growth factor — Rita Levi-Montalcini is a scientist like no other. Alison Abbott meets the first Nobel prizewinner set to reach her hundredth birthday.
  
  1 April 2009
- News 2008: Prizewinners of the year - Premium content
  
  Medals, cash and fame rained down on the heads of prominent scientists in 2008. Ashley Yeager rounds up some of them.
  
  17 December 2008
- German authority halts primate work - Premium content
  
  Licence for macaque experiments will not be renewed.
  
  27 October 2008