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Report identifies early childhood conditions that lead to adult health disparities
Jun 02, 2009 |
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The origins of many adult diseases can be traced to early negative experiences associated with social class and other markers of disadvantage. Confronting the causes of adversity before and shortly after birth may be a promising ...
Neuroscientists propose project to comprehensively map mammalian brain circuits
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Thirty-seven scientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and 20 other major research institutions in the U.S. and Europe have issued a major challenge to the neuroscience community. At long last, the time has come, ...
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Tiny but adaptable wasp brains show ability to alter their architecture
Oct 14, 2009 |
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For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis.
Changes in brain architecture may be driven by different cognitive challenges
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli ...
Direct recording shows brain signal persists even in dreamless sleep
Sep 30, 2008 |
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Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken one of the first direct looks at one of the human brain's most fundamental "foundations": a brain signal that never switches off and may ...
Risk and reward compete in brain
Oct 09, 2008 |
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That familiar pull between the promise of victory and the dread of defeat – whether in money, love or sport – is rooted in the brain's architecture, according to a new imaging study.
When every photon counts
Apr 20, 2009 |
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The eyes of nocturnal mammals contain particularly large numbers of the highly light-sensitive rods, the photoreceptor type used for night vision. This allows the detection of light levels millions of times ...
Adult brain neurons can remodel connections
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Overturning a century of prevailing thought, scientists are finding that neurons in the adult brain can remodel their connections. In work reported in the Nov. 24 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Scientists discover a molecular scaffold that guides connections between brain cells
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May 20, 2008 |
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[B]Nonsignaling glial cells can direct synapse formation in the forging of neural networks[/B] Brain cells known as neurons process information by joining into complex networks, transmitting signals to each other across jun ...
Cognitive computing: Building a machine that can learn from experience
Dec 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Suppose you want to build a computer that operates like the brain of a mammal. How hard could it be? After all, there are supercomputers that can decode the human genome, play chess and calculate ...
Discovery of 'alert status' area in brain opens door to treatment of impaired consciousness disorders
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according ...
Mesh-like network of arteries adjusts to restore blood flow to stroke-injured brain
Jan 30, 2009 |
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A grid of small arteries at the surface of the brain redirects flow and widens at critical points to restore blood supply to tissue starved of nutrients and oxygen following a stroke, a study published this ...
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