Neuroscience

New research looking at the gaze patterns of security experts suggests that they “see more” than normal observers.

Why do some neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric diseases such as autism affect more boys than girls? Tracy Bale explains.

Circadian confusion plays a role in metabolic disease and depression.

Cathryn Denney looks back at her favourite posters from SfN 2010.

An article on the first 3D structure of a sodium channel is currently the most-evaluated paper in F1000’s Neuroscience Faculty this year.

Nobel prize winner Sydney Brenner talks about why he chose C. elegans as a model organism for the investigation of neural development.

Arturo Alvarez Buylla, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for technical and scientific research, talks about why curing neurodegenerative disorders isn’t as easy as simply making new neurons.

Martin Raff talks about cells urging one another not to commit suicide.

Given a difficult or dangerous task, or one in an environment not easily accessible to humans, we can usually find a robot or machine to do the job instead. Robotic surgery and space and underwater research are all examples of this. Likewise, if we lose a limb it can be replaced with a high tech…

This little guy, sometimes known as the ‘kissing bug’ (because it likes to eat your face), feeds off fresh blood and is responsible for spreading Trypanosoma cruzii–which causes Chagas disease. To this charming CV, Claudio Lazzari and colleagues at the Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte in Tours have just added learning ability.…