'Brain gain' in New Orleans, two years later
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Armed with college degrees and buoyed with seemingly boundless energy, many young professionals have arrived in New Orleans and taken up work two years after Hurrican Katrina. Hanging over these young people, however, is a persistent question. Will they stay?
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Brain scans have been developed which it is claimed can predict what a person is about to do.
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Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
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Children&#39;s brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That&#39;s the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of
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When Sister Kathleen Treanor's soul ascends to heaven, her brain will go to a less ethereal realm: a medical lab in Kentucky. Two decades ago, Sister Treanor and 677 other members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame granted a young researcher's request to test them each year in order to track the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other age-related brain disorders.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- Church bells pealed at 9:38 a.m. here Tuesday, the moment floodwaters breached the city's levees a year ago, as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina cast a funereal pall over this half-empty city.
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Scientists have mapped a key network of switches in the brain which could aid research into neurological conditions.
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana  - Mardi Gras revelers packed New Orleans on Saturday as large crowds turned out to watch parades and fill the French Quarter in what many viewed as another step in the long recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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The e-mail came from the next room. "You gotta see this!" Jorge Moll had written. Moll and Jordan Grafman, neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health, had been scanning the brains of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity...
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Also: Paul Allen project maps the brain. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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While it's hard to think of positives to come out a severe brain injury, here's one: it just helped ABC News' Bob Woodruff score a scoop.
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Manchester scientists pinpoint a part of the brain they think plays a major role in understanding concepts.
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President Bush is marking Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow two years ago by celebrating those he says have "dedicated their lives to the renewal of New Orleans" even as he and others are criticized for not doing more to get the city and Gulf Coast back to their former selves.
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The ravages of Katrina are still evident everywhere you turn. But there is reason for optimism in New Orleans. A city that once laughed at its colorful and inept political culture has found its civic pride.
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Having a sound sleep after cramming for exams consolidates that learning, a new research has revealed. Neurologist Philippe Peigneux and his colleagues analysed brain activity in sleeping volunteers and found
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The fantasy of winning stimulates the same brain circuits that winning does.
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A day after the Zulu parade rolled down his street Â and more than two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded it Â Eddie Handy was beginning to feel at home again.