Greg Miller
An effective test to diagnose onset of Alzheimer’s
The slow-burning fuse of Alzheimer’s creates a terrible predicament for doctors, patients and the scientists working to develop therapies: Once ...
Court cases increasingly decided with neuroscientific evidence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A study of 1,600 court ...
A new kind of sex? Strange micro-organism makes imperfect clones of itself
Oxytricha trifallax lives in ponds all over the world. Under an electron microscope it looks like a football adorned with tassels ...
Pre-natal neuron disorganization may cause autism
Nobody knows what causes autism, a condition that varies so widely in severity that some people on the spectrum achieve ...
Memory — not perception — might be key to dyslexia
If auditory processing is at the core of the frustrating disorder dyslexia, then dyslexic musicians shouldn't exist. But they do ...
New bionic hand includes a sense of touch
Sensory feedback is what will turn future prostheses from tools into hands; a breakthrough bionic hand represents a first step ...