News tagged with basal ganglia
Songbirds reveal how practice improves performance
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Learning complex skills like playing an instrument requires a sequence of movements that can take years to master. Last year, MIT neuroscientists reported that by studying the chirps of tiny ...
Decreased activity of basal ganglia is the main cause of abnormal muscle constrictions in dystonia
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary abnormal muscle constrictions. More than 300,000 people in North America are affected, but the mechanism of abnormal muscle constrictions has not been well ...
Novel imaging technique reveals brain abnormalities that may play key role in ADHD
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Nov 17, 2008 |
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A study published today in the online advance edition of The American Journal of Psychiatry for the first time reveals shape differences in the brains of children with ADHD, which could help pinpoint the specific neural circui ...
Neuroscientist scans brain for clues on best time to multitask
Sep 02, 2008 |
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In today's fast-paced world, multitasking has become an increasingly necessary part of our daily routine. Unfortunately, multitasking also is notoriously inefficient. However, a new brain imaging study led by a cognitive ...
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Decision-making -- Demonstration of a link between cognition and execution
Feb 08, 2007 |
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For the first time, a team of researchers in the Movement, Adaptation, Cognition Laboratory (CNRS/University Victor Ségalen, Bordeaux) has revealed the existence of an interaction at the cellular level between cognitive information ...
More obesity blues: Obese people are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer's
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Obesity is on a rampage, with the World Health Organization pegging the numbers at more than 300 million worldwide, with a billion more overweight. With obesity comes the increased risk for cardiovascular disease, Type II ...
Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of ...
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures
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Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we ...
Belief, disbelief and uncertainty activate distinct brain regions
Dec 10, 2007 |
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The capacity of the human mind to believe or disbelieve a statement is a powerful force for controlling both behavior and emotion, but the basis of these states in the brain is not yet understood. A new study found that belief, ...
'Cross fire' from the brain makes patients tremble
Jul 11, 2008 |
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A typical symptom of Parkinson's disease is tremor in patients. A group of scientists, including Professor Peter Tass from Forschungszentrum Jülich have succeeded in demonstrating the mechanisms which cause the so-called ...
Childhood adversity may affect processing in the brain's reward pathways
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Jul 15, 2009 |
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New research shows that childhood adversity is associated with diminished neural activity in brain regions implicated in the anticipation of possible rewards.
Scientists create airway spheres to study lung diseases
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Using both animal and human cells, Duke University Medical Center scientists have demonstrated that a single lung cell can become one of two very different types of airway cells, which could lead to a better understanding ...
Part Of Human Brain Functions Like A Digital Computer, Professor Says
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Oct 05, 2006 |
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A region of the human brain that scientists believe is critical to human intellectual abilities surprisingly functions much like a digital computer, according to psychology Professor Randall O'Reilly of the University of ...
New imaging technique reveals structural changes in Tourette's
May 12, 2009 |
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Magnetization Transfer Imaging, MTI, has been used to visualize previously unknown alterations in the cerebral architecture of patients with Tourette's syndrome. The researchers, writing in the open access journal BMC Ne ...
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