Sleeping takes up to a third of our time. Newborn babies spend about twice that. It is inordinately difficult to remain awake for more than a full day-night cycle, without artificial substances. In humans, continuous wakefulness of the nervous system results in mental derangement; rats deprived of sleep for 5 of more days die. All […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is always on the edge when dealing with technology and innovations. As DARPA is a military organisation, they test a lot of products which can improve the physical and mental performance of the army. The scientists of DARPA have now found a drug that eliminates sleepiness of a key brain hormone. The drug, a naturally occurring brain hormone orexin A, […]

Besides a nice wake-up in the morning, coffee may also cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body. The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease. Researchers from the University of North Dakota in the U.S. looked at the effect of caffeine on […]

While learning a new fact, physical changes in the brain-structure occur. Theses are still too complex for us to completely understand what these changes are, how they are organized across the synapses and neurons, how they are encoded and decoded, even decades later. Memory is divided into short-term memory (remembering a phone number just long […]

A new vaccine against addictions has been developed by a group of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Canada. For now, the vaccine only works on cocaine, but promising tests have been made with the vaccine against methamphetamines. The new vaccines not only relieves addiction but also decreases withdrawal symptoms. The way the vaccine works, […]