Muscle Building Blog

One old theory is that meditation is just like exercise: it trains the brain as if gray matter were a bundle of muscles. You work those muscles and they get stronger.

The muscle weakness and coordination problems sometimes seen in patients with neonatal diabetes - a rare, inherited form of diabetes - are caused by problems in the brain rather than the muscles, according to research just published. The findings could pave the way for the development of improved treatments for the disease. Neonatal diabetes affects one in 100,000 infants in the UK. It usually ...

It takes an elephants muscles roughly 100 times longer to respond to its environment than a tiny shrew because of the extra distance signals have to travel from its nerves to its brain, according to a new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University.

The prosthetic works in tandem with transplanted healthy nerves that prompt electrical impulses from the brain to reach muscles in the chest.

�Missoula students flexed their brain muscles by building what they say is "a one of a kind robot."� This 120-pound robot named Mr. T doesn't look like your average store-bought robot. � �