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Abnormal brain circuits may prevent movement disorder
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Specific changes in brain pathways may counteract genetic mutations for the movement disorder dystonia, according to new research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Few people who inherit dystonia genes ...
Research shows brain cells make clever connections
Jun 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has revealed that growing nerve fibres may navigate by using a clever mathematical trick.
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Manipulating the Brain Network Could Improve IQ
Jun 10, 2009 |
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In an attempt to investigate why some brains are more intelligent than others, researchers have found that efficient wiring between different brain regions is associated with a higher IQ. This understanding ...
New Discovery Could Rejuvenate the Brain
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of British Columbia have discovered why the brain loses its capacity to re-grow connections and repair itself, knowledge that could lead to therapeutics that “rejuvenate” the ...
Source of cognitive decline in aging brains
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As people age, memory and the ability to carry out tasks often decline. Scientists looking for ways to lessen that decline often have focused on the "gray matter" -- the cortical regions where high-level ...
Impaired brain plasticity linked to Angelman syndrome learning deficits
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 10, 2009 |
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How might disruption of a single gene in the brain cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder? Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of ...
Seeing red -- in the number 7
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Hypnosis can induce synaesthetic experiences – where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another – according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers. The findings suggests that people with synaesthesia, ...
Computer model shows changes in brain mechanisms for cocaine addicts
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2009 |
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About 2 million Americans currently use cocaine for its temporary side-effects of euphoria, which have contributed to making it one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in the country. Cocaine addiction, ...
Researchers find that hypnosis can induce synesthesia
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Hypnosis can induce "synesthetic" experiences – where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another – within an average brain, according to a new study in the journal Psychological Science, the premiere publication of the ...
Research sheds new light on epilepsy
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease.
Scientists identify machinery that helps make memories
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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A major puzzle for neurobiologists is how the brain can modify one microscopic connection, or synapse, at a time in a brain cell and not affect the thousands of other connections nearby. Plasticity, the ability of the brain ...
In double transplant, left hand works first
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When patients had both hands transplanted, their brains re-established connections much more quickly with the left hand than the right, a team of researchers in France reports.
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