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For most of us, beer is a convivial drink, but for some, it can be addicting. Alcoholism is an affliction in which a person has become phys...

Using your thoughts to control robot arms and robot legs are the next big thing currently in development for paraplegics. Proof of concepts...

Organ transplantations are nothing new nowadays, as hospitals are readily replacing various organs, including lungs, heart, kidneys and oth...

Being able to hear is governed by the nervous system, by gathering input from the ears and turning it into information regarding our surrou...

Our brains are the most vital when we are young, and during that time we learn the most. As we age, it becomes increasingly hard to learn s...

Sometimes studies reveal biological mechanisms that have way more consequences that one could possibly imagine. Such is the case in a recen...

Sensitivity towards pain is not the same in all humans. Some of us are more sensitive to painful stimuli, while others are less affected. I...

Our brain consists of many wires that all connect to each other and communicate by means of electricity. Small electrical pulses travel alo...

Epilepsy is something like a temporary overload of the brain. The seizures that accompany the disease are defined as "abnormal excessi...

A good night's sleep is necessary to function properly, but the exact function of this peculiar state of hibernation is still unknown. ...

Parkinson's disease affects the part of the brain that takes care of muscle control. Because the brain part responsible for these funct...

One of the hardest tissue types to replace is that of the nervous system. Individual cells, called neurons, are hard to acquire and even ha...

Our attempts at understanding how the brain works have yielded very interesting results in the last couple of years We have seen paraplegic...

Many forms of behaviour require our attention and conscious thinking. However, we all have our habits; things we have gotten used to and wh...

Humans are social beings, just like many other intelligent mammals. Not only do we prefer social contact, we actually need it: an experimen...

A lot of people suffer from migraine attacks, a condition that can be severely debilitating. It is a form of severe headache that periodica...

Our brain has the capacity to mimic things we see, which speeds up various learning processes. An example is watching someone walk: while t...

We all know the feeling of nausea, but the mechanisms of the body that induce such sensations are poorly understood. This is in contrast to...

Our brain controls all parts of our body, but it is also very busy with storing all kinds of information. Memory is a very important aspect...

Your brain has a special way of dealing with memories in order to give them a permanent spot. A brain area called the hippocampus sort of r...