Brain plasticity in adults and cognition
I ran across a study from a couple of years ago by Rachel Brans and colleagues, which has an interesting result showing a genetic correlation between plastic...
All posts tagged with brain function
Brains in a haystack
An essay by Gary Marcus, in the new online science magazine, Nautilus: “Where uniqueness lies”.
Thinking simply
Vaughan Bell has a nice piece in the Guardian on folk psychology – how ordinary people tend to think about their own thinking: “Our brains, and how they’re n...
Micro-RNA 941
John Timmer covers the story of miR-941, a micro-RNA that may influence the expression of genes in human brains, and which appears to have taken on a novel r...
Einstein and Taung: two brains collide
Dean Falk has a new article in the journal Brain, in which she and collaborators uncover the details within historical photographs of Albert Einstein’s brain...
Keep still for your brain picture
Ben Deen and Kevin Pelphrey in Nature: “Perspective: Brain scans need a rethink” .
Building bigger dolphin brains
Ed Yong reports on a new study demonstrating a history of positive selection on the gene ASPM in cetaceans. Bruce Lahn’s group previously showed that this ge...
Mouse brain mapping
This merits some attention: “Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping project”.
Neuron theory
Ferris Jabr has begun a series called “Know your neurons”, which will be a tour of the types of neurons. The first installment (“Know Your Neurons: The Disco...
Culture in the brain
The Guardian has a dialogue between David Eagleman and Raymond Tallis in which the two authors debate the importance of culture as a constraint on behavior. ...
Mailbag: Thrifty brains
Re: The thrifty brainotype.
The thrifty brainotype
Andy Clark, a philosopher of the mind, has entered a useful essay in the NY Times online commentary section: “Do thrifty brains make better minds?”
Mailbag: Genetics of schizophrenia
Re: Schizophrenia