47 news posts in Frontiers in Neuroscience

Featured news

19 Apr 2018

Music lessons improve children’s cognitive skills and academic performance

Structured music lessons significantly enhance children’s cognitive abilities which lead to improved academic performance: Frontiers in Neuroscience

Neuroscience

06 Mar 2018

Scientists move closer to treatment for Huntington’s disease

Improvements to gene-editing techniques hold promise for inactivating the defective gene responsible for Huntington’s disease : Frontiers in Neuroscience

Featured news

06 Feb 2018

Can your brain testify against you?

A defined set of guidelines is required to ensure neuroscientific techniques are used correctly and effectively in law: Frontiers in Neuroscience

Featured news

03 Jan 2018

Presurgical imaging may predict whether epilepsy surgery will work

A new method described in Frontiers in Neuroscience may help identify epilepsy patients at high risk of continued seizures.

Featured news

15 Dec 2017

Paraplegic rats walk and regain feeling after stem cell treatment

Engineered tissue containing human stem cells has allowed paraplegic rats to walk independently and regain sensory perception: Frontiers in Neuroscience

Neuroscience

02 Oct 2017

No evidence of permanent hearing loss from common recreational noise

A study in Frontiers in Neuroscience finds no evidence that loud events cause auditory nerve injury or permanent hearing loss in young adults.

Neuroscience

13 Sep 2017

Personalized treatment for chronic pain relief?

A study of antidepressant drugs used to treat chronic pain, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, shows that some individuals might better tolerate certain side effects than others, pointing the way for personalized medicine.

Neuroscience

05 Sep 2017

Brain augmentation brought to Russian audience

A collection of research published in Frontiers in Neuroscience is being brought to the Russian public by popular science neuroscience website – Neuronovosti.

Neuroscience

09 May 2017

Cycling while studying improves sleep quality

New research in Frontiers in Neuroscience suggests that cycling while studying may improve sleep quality.

Neuroscience

08 May 2017

Human super intelligence: still science fiction or close to reality?

New research published in Frontiers in Neuroscience discusses the facts, fiction and controversy surrounding brain augmentation.

Neuroscience

21 Apr 2017

Study shows rapid growth in neuroscience

A Frontiers in Neuroscience study has shown that the number of neuroscience papers and highly-productive core neuroscience journals has grown.

Health

05 Dec 2016

Healthy living equals better brain function

Research suggests feedback loop between greater executive function and healthy behavior

Robotics and AI

18 Aug 2016

Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine

Every year 1,900 new upper-limb amputations occur in Europe, maintaining a population of such disabled persons hovering around 90,000. What can assistive robotics, rehabilitation science and engineering do for these people?