News tagged with brain circuit
Neural pathway missing in tone-deaf people
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Nerve fibers that link perception and motor regions of the brain are disconnected in tone-deaf people, according to new research in the August 19 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Experts estimate that at least 10 per ...
Japanese scientists aim to create robot-insects
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Police release a swarm of robot-moths to sniff out a distant drug stash. Rescue robot-bees dodge through earthquake rubble to find survivors.
Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is stored in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. Fear conditioning is a form of Pavlovian, or associative, ...
Why can we talk? 'Humanized' mice speak volumes
May 28, 2009 |
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Mice carrying a "humanized version" of a gene believed to influence speech and language may not actually talk, but they nonetheless do have a lot to say about our evolutionary past, according to a report in the May 29th issue ...
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, ...
