ScienceDaily: Mind and Brain News

ScienceDaily: Mind & Brain News

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• Why Do Cells Age? Discovery of Extremely Long-Lived Proteins May Provide Insight Into Cell Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Greater Brain Activation After Cognitive Rehabilitation for MS
• No Walk in the Park: Factors That Predict Walking Difficulty in Elderly
• Broken Arm? Brain Shifts Quickly When Using a Sling or Cast
• Walk This Way: Scientists and Physiology Students Describe How a Motor Protein ‘Steps Out
• Get Lost Easily? The Cerebellum Is Your Navigation Assistant
• Multiple Sclerosis Linked to Different Area of Brain
• An exercise intervention to prevent falls in people with Parkinson’s disease: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
• Nerve Cells Key to Making Sense of Our Senses  10.1038/nn.2983
• Robot Brain Implanted in a Rodent: Researcher Implants Robotic Cerebellum to Repair Motor Function
•  Clear Vision Despite a Heavy Head: Model Explains the Choice of Simple Movements 
• Think Fast: The Neural Circuitry of Reaction Time
• ‘Brain Maps’ Created for How Humans Reach  
• Abnormal Neural Activity Recorded from the Deep Brain of Parkinson’s Disease and Dystonia Patients 
• Mental illness: Early-life depression and anxiety changes structure of developing brain
• The leading edge of stress: New genomic, optogenetic and epigenetic findings
• Research provides clues to neurodevelopemental disorders
• Focus on testing hurts students in high school health classes
• Everybody can become a better a reader, Swedish research suggests
• The serotonin system in women’s brains is damaged more readily by alcohol than that in men’s brains
• Watching less TV, being more active and sleeping more is linked to a healthy body weight in young children
• Adolescent sex linked to adult body, mood troubles, in animal study
• How the brain perceives shades of gray
• Mimicking the brain — in silicon: New computer chip models how neurons communicate with each other at synapses
• Is a stranger trustworthy? You’ll know in 20 seconds
• Predicting how individuals differ from their genome sequences
• Surgery on toy animals lessens anxiety of veterinary students