After completing the first study of its kind, researchers at McMaster University have discovered that very early musical training benefits children even before they can walk or talk. They found that one-year-old babies who participate in interactive music classes with their parents smile more, communicate better and show earlier and more sophisticated brain responses to [...]

Smartphones and Other Gadgets Help Low Vision New gadgets can help with the shifting needs of patients with low vision, experts say. Medscape Medical News http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/759610?src=rss No tags for this post.

Most Cited Neuroscience Articles Most cited articles published since 2007, extracted from SciVerse Scopus. Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases Volume 145, Issue 4, April 2007, Pages 1233-1248 Trushina, E. | McMurray, C.T. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative damage are major contributors to neuronal loss. [...]

10 most -cited neuroscience articles published between 1995 and 2005: 1. (1684 citations) Sherrington et al., Cloning of a gene bearing missense mutations in early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 1995. 2. (1603 citations) Polymeropoulos et al., Mutation in the alpha-synuclein gene identified in families with Parkinson’s disease. Science 1997. 3. (1513 citations) Caterina et al., [...]

A new study, in this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , shows an incredible degree of biological diversity in a surprising location, i.e. in a single neural connection in the body wall of flies. The finding opens up a new spectrum of interesting questions regarding the importance of [...]