How Crabs Find Their Way Home
Fiddler crabs track strides to help them find their burrows


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Scientists extract images directly from brain
12 Dec 2008


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Fibromyalgia patients show brain abnormalities

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - French researchers have shown that patients with fibromyalgia have abnormal blood flow in the brain, which may be related to the underlying cause of the condition.

"We found brain functional differences between patients with fibromyalgia and those who do not have the ( Read more... )

A Switch to Turn Off Autism?
By Susannah F. Locke

Scientists say they have pinpointed a gene in the brain that can calm nerve cells that become too jumpy, potentially paving the way for new therapies to treat autism and other neurological disorders.

"It's exciting because it opens the field up," says Michael Greenberg, a neurobiologist at Harvard ( Read more... )

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Apes Able to Think Ahead

By David Biello


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