2008

• Are you trying to impress me? Even male zebrafinches need a bit of inspiration to do their best work Science
• Magic and the Brain: How Magicians "Trick" the Mind SciAm
• Art as Visual Research: 12 Examples of Kinetic Illusions in Op Art SciAm
• The Neurological Basis of True Love Science
• Still crazy (in love) after all these years Science News
• Face 'blindness' down to brain wiring NewSci
  Experts find 'scaredy-cat' gene BBC
• The neurobiology of pair bonding Nature Neuroscience
• Mirror neurons control erection response to porn NewScientist
• Scans see 'gay brain differences' BBC
• Why the Brain Follows the Rules Sciam
• High levels of the "hunger hormone" ghrelin have an antidepressant effect, US researchers claim. BBC
• Brain Sparks Account for Smarter Species-- Relentless evolution towards more intelligent species may have been driven not just by progressively larger brains but by the increasingly complex way in which they were wired, reports a study released Sunday. discovery
• Brain division could help explain stereotyping, religious conflict and racism. Nature
• Scientists study man’s amazing memory
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23296808/
• Genetic Tags Reveal Secrets of Memories? Staying Power in Mice
  http://www.nih.gov/news/health/feb2008/nimh-21.htm

2006

• RESEARCH IN GENDER AND BRAIN SUGGESTS DIFFERENCES AT CELL LEVEL

2004.

• Seat of female libido revealed
• http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2004/apr/hot_040426.html
  Melanopsin Lights the Way
  A novel photoreceptor system solves one mystery while stirring up a few more
  Outlandish as it seems, people lacking functional rods and cones can receive and process visual information. At least two decades ago, scientists began speculating that there may be another, "nonclassical" photoreceptor responsible for synchronizing the mammalian circadian clock with the light/dark cycle, and evidence for the idea has been building ever since.1
  This issue's Hot Papers added to that body of evidence by demonstrating that melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are intrinsically light sensitive, and project to the brain's "master clock," thus cementing melanopsin's role as a key component of a novel photoreceptor system.
• Central Pattern Generator in spinal cord: two critical molecules identified
• Scientists discovered a molecule in the brain's master clock that signals to the rest of the body that it's daytime.

• An amino-acid taste receptor
  Nelson et al.
  Here we identify and characterize a mammalian amino-acid taste receptor. This receptor, T1R1+3, is a heteromer of the taste-specific T1R1 and T1R3 G-protein-coupled receptors. We demonstrate that T1R1 and T1R3 combine to function as a broadly tuned L-amino-acid sensor responding to most of the 20 standard amino acids....
  Paper published in Nature

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