Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system and its components. Neuroscientists may examine the nervous systems of humans and higher animals as well as simple multicellular nervous systems, or investigate nervous phenomenon at the cellular,...

The scientific study of NERVOUS SYSTEM and all the tissues that compose it. Because it is such a large field of study, qualifying terms are often added such as BEHAVIOURAL NEUROSCIENCE, COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE or invertebrate neuroscience (the study of...

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous tissue, activity, organization, systems, and interactions. It is paradigmatically interdisciplinary, currently including biophysics, organic and biochemistry, molecular through evolutionary...

David Olton was a psychologist who studied the neuroscience of memory and animal cognition. He discovered that rats not only learned and remembered places, but like humans, could keep lists of places in memory for hours. His work on memory in animals,...

Neuroscience is a field that is devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, computational neuroscience and...

Researchers in England claim they now understand why love is "blind," that is, why people tend not to see faults in their loved ones. According to British psychiatrist Raj Persaud's newspaper commentary on the research, the answer is that, for evolutionary reasons, "strong emotional...

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Seymour Benzer, a groundbreaking biologist whose work linking behavior and genes laid the foundation for modern neuroscience, has died. He was 86.Benzer died of a stroke Friday morning at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, said Jill Perry, a spokeswoman for the California Institute of Technology, where...

At 4, Bernas isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and climbed trees.The two Sumatran orangutans are...