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Few features of child-rearing occupy as much parental brain space as sleep, and with it the timeless question: Is my child getting enough?

Few features of child-rearing occupy as much parental brain space as sleep, and with it the timeless question: Is my child getting enough?

When we’re born, our brains aren’t very organized. Every brain cell talks to lots of other nearby cells, sending and receiving signals across connections called synapses.

Two neighboring brain cells "talk" to one another by sending signals across a gap called a synapse. The more active the synapse during development, U-M researchers found, the more a protein called SIRP is cut loose from one cell, travels to the other, and helps stabilize the synapse for the future.

With the tap of a toe or the blink of an eye, those with ALS are redefining what it means to be alive.

I have to admit it took some time to come up with that line and believe it -- to have that kind of positive outlook on this nasty deadly disease and the future.

Just a year and a half ago, my mother, Myrna Malveaux, 69, was healthy. Our family's matriarch, she was the one who was the life of the party, the trusted confidante but town crier of all family secrets, the glue that held my father, me, and my three siblings together.

With the tap of a toe or the blink of an eye, those with ALS are redefining what it means to be alive.

I have to admit it took some time to come up with that line and believe it -- to have that kind of positive outlook on this nasty deadly disease and the future.

Just a year and a half ago, my mother, Myrna Malveaux, 69, was healthy. Our family's matriarch, she was the one who was the life of the party, the trusted confidante but town crier of all family secrets, the glue that held my father, me, and my three siblings together.

A new research by Australain researchers could provide hope for people with spatial memory impairments. Researchers at Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at University of Queenslandhave found that human brains ‘divide and conquer' when people learn to navigate around new environments.

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Many scientists now believe that real progress on learning how the brain works can be made only through highly funded, inter­disciplinary big science...

Psychologists report for the first time that specific brain regions are associated with the successful spread of ideas, often called "buzz. " These regions in the brain are called temporoparietal junction (TPJ) and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC).

The research has a broad range of implications, the study authors say, and could lead to more effective public health campaigns, more persuasive advertisements and better ways for teachers to communicate with students.