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Some fantastic work was presented at the press conference on stem cells, but it all fell rather flat – the only conference I was at that finished early for lack of questions. We heard about really ...

Some fantastic work was presented at the press conference on stem cells, but it all fell rather flat – the only conference I was at that finished early for lack of questions. We heard about really ...

The History of Neuroscience lecture this afternoon was one I had been really looking forward to. McGill University’s Brenda Milner was to speak on the field of memory, which - when she began to stu...

Fascinating research that's a little scary, too. I'd hate to think that parasite does a whole lot to the human nervous system, considering that a lot of people have it already and it sounds pretty ...

Michael Ahlijanian, a vice-president of the small biotech company EnVivo, told the meeting that the company’s new compound EVP-0334 is to enter clinical trials for treating memory disorders ‘very s...

Kerri,
and while only 4% of the US population have a major mental illness, they smoke 44% of the cigarettes sold.
Is this really true? It seems startlingly high. I'd be interested in a citation tha...

I’m a sucker for the rather trendy area of brain-machine interfaces, which is why I poked my nose into the symposium on Advanced Neurotechnologies for Chronic Neural Interfaces this afternoon. This...

31,000 participants so far and counting. The density of humans at this meeting is unimaginable. But the programme is better than it's ever been. New technologies, particularly imaging, have opened ...

I always enjoy, as a bit of a departure from the rest of the conference, checking out the History of Neuroscience posters, typically situated in row ZZ through ZZZ of the enormous hall, and not so ...

The directors of each of the neuro-related National Institutes of Health convened for a press conference this morning. Those of us who were after hard news were a little disappointed, but I found t...