Nature Neuroscience

This neuroscientist urges swapping melatonin for a secret sleep cocktail

The hidden downside of melatonin: Explore why melatonin, while effective at initiating sleep, often leaves people struggling to stay asleep.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
"Melatonin will help you fall asleep, but it won't help you stay asleep"

Menopause hormone pills associated with dementia - study

HRT was widely prescribed before 2003, when a large randomized trial found the estrogen/progestin combination was linked with a two-fold increase in dementia risk among women older than 65.

|ByREUTERS
Illustrative image of a woman sleeping by a window.

How do we process memory in our sleep? - study

Scientists were able to enhance memories in sleeping participants by stimulating specific regions of their brains in synchrony.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Neuron

Nano-magnets can be used to restore damaged nerve cells -Bar-Ilan University

A novel technique uses magnetic manipulations to create “mini-brains” in order to restore damaged neural networks.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Hadassah Ein Kerem to use world’s most advanced microscope

Manufactured by German optical company Zeiss, the KINEVO 900 features a visualization system that allows surgeons to view elements such as blood vessels and tumors in high-resolution.

JULY 11, 2018ByOREN OPPENHEIM
A neurosurgeon looks through an eyepiece on the KINEVO 900 microscope at Hadassah Ein Kerem

A scientific experience: Brains have misdirected brain research

More money, resources and manpower are not the solution.

MARCH 28, 2018ByIDO KANTER
Bar Ilan University's Institute for Nantechnology and Advanced Materials

The pomegranate potential

An innovative Israeli supplement for preventing and improving neurodegenerative diseases is here.

JANUARY 21, 2018ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Prof. Ruth Gabizon

Neuroscientist, the son of a cantor, wins Nobel Prize for Medicine

The prize awarded to Rosbash, 74, and two others was for their discoveries about molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s daily rhythm.

OCTOBER 3, 2017ByJTA
Michael Rosbash, a Brandeis University professor, proof-reads a press release after being named as a co-winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

TAU researchers: Not only practice makes perfect

The participants’ performance rate was measured and compared to that of control subjects who had undergone a standard training protocol.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Tel Aviv University