DAEJEON, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) announced on Wednesday that it has found an explanation for brain cell activity that results in preference for a certain location. In sum, memories of preferred locations are created while astrocytes in the brain combine with opioids, compounds that are known to cause [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that senior citizens who think of themselves as being younger than their actual age have “younger” brains than those who regard themselves as older than their real age. According to research conducted by professor Choi Jin-yeong of Seoul National University published in the international [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Koreabiz Wire) – Leaving the lights on can leave a negative impact on the brain while sleeping, research staff at the Korea University Anam Hospital found. Professors of neuropsychiatry at the hospital discovered brain function deterioration can occur during sleep when exposed to light no matter how dim it is. The recent [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Scientists from the DGMIF (Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation) have successfully increased the effects of brain disease treatment by using ultrasound to stimulate the blood-brain barrier (BBB). According to the team, the BBB regulates drugs or metabolites flowing into the central nervous system (CNS), thus reducing the effects of therapeutic [...]
DAEGU, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Brain Research Institute is opening a new animal experiment facility for brain research that will be the largest of its kind in Korea. According to the institute, workers are now putting the finishing touches on the equipment in the ‘behavior analysis zone’ at the Animal Experiment Center, [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of neuropsychiatry scientists from Seoul National University Hospital in Bundang has developed a standard brain model for Korea’s elderly population, after analyzing the MRI results of 96 citizens over the age of 60 without brain-related illnesses. According to the team, the shape and size of an average [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Severe depression can sometimes drive a person to make one of the most extreme decisions: committing suicide. And until now, medical science was not able to provide a clear reason for such behavior despite high interest in the relationship between depression and suicide. On Tuesday, a team of scientists [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea announced an ambitious brain-mapping project Monday, saying it would catch up with the U.S., Japan and other advanced nations in the brain science field within the next decade. The government will create a “specialized atlas” of the brain focusing on the structure and function of the parietal [...]
SEOUL, Nov.10 (Korea Bizwire) – Brain images will be taken and used as evidence at the appeal trial of Park Chun-poong (55, Chinese) who is on trial for the ‘mutilation murder of Paldal mountain’. The case marks the first time that actual footage of the brain will be used in a trial rather than the [...]