Bret Stetka
Podcast: ‘A History of the Human Brain’
Our guest on [Studio Tulsa] is Bret Stetka, an editorial director at Medscape.com, which is the professional division of WebMD.com ...
Symphony of scents: Why do flowers smell different from rotting fish?
In the deep recesses of the nose are millions of sensory neurons that, along with our eyes and ears, help ...
Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ with neural activity of pre-term infants could boost brain, disease research
Scientists have been trying to grow human organs—including kidneys, livers, skin and guts—from scratch well over a decade. These “organoids” are not ...
Taming immune system after stroke could reduce risk of brain damage
The pathology of a stroke is deceptively complicated. In the simplest sense, strokes occur when the blood supply to a ...
Brain’s ‘instant replay’ system helps us make better decisions
A report published on June 27 in Science reveals how the hippocampus learns and hard wires certain experiences into memory ...
‘Glioblastoma-on-a-chip’ could boost efforts to treat deadliest human cancer
The most common form of malignant brain cancer—called a glioblastoma—is notoriously wily and considered the deadliest human cancer. … [R]esearchers ...
‘Risky decisions’ and why our brains make it so easy for us to gamble
A new study by a team from Johns Hopkins University appears to have identified a region of the brain that plays a ...
Here’s one of the reasons obese people have trouble losing weight
Obesity rates in the U.S. and abroad have soared: The world now has more overweight people than those who weigh ...
How heritable is autism? Twins research suggests we may be vastly underestimating it
An analysis of DNA variants suggests the heritability of childhood behavior problems, including autism traits, is about 6 percent, researchers ...
Unique mix of brain chemicals separates humans from other primates
A team of researchers has now used a novel technique to form a hypothesis on the origins of our rich ...
Does ‘mindfulness’ make you healthier? Scientific data ‘woefully lacking’
The concept of mindfulness involves focusing on your present situation and state of mind. This can mean awareness of your ...
Nex-gen technologies expand sequencing options for doctors
Genetic data has gone the way of fast food: It's cheap, speedy, and widely available. And that's a good thing, ...
Can mindfulness meditation protect your DNA?
“I think, therefore I am” is perhaps the most familiar one-liner in western philosophy. Even if the stoners, philosophers and ...