News tagged with brain processes
Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging
One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain ...
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Just another pretty face: Professor investigates neural basis of prosopagnosia
For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Heart failure is associated with loss of brain cells and a decline in mental processes
Australian researchers have found evidence that heart failure is associated with a decline in people's mental processes and a loss of grey matter in the brain. These changes can make it more difficult for ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Researchers rewrite textbook on location of brain's speech processing center
Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain's cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received -- a place famously known as Wernicke's area ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Defects in the packaging of DNA in malignant brain tumors
Glioblastomas grow extremely aggressively into healthy brain tissue and, moreover, are highly resistant to radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, they are regarded as the most malignant type of brain tumor. Currently ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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New research to enhance speech recognition technology
New research is hoping to understand how the human brain hears sound to help develop improved hearing aids and automatic speech recognition systems.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 17, 2012 |
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How doctors make diagnoses
Doctors use similar brain mechanisms to make diagnoses and to name objects, according to a study published in the Dec. 14 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE and led by Marcio Melo of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2011 |
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The brain on trial
How should insights about the brain affect the course of a criminal trial, from the arguments in a courtroom to the issuing of a sentence?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 12, 2011 |
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How muscle fatigue originates in the head
The extent to which we are able to activate our muscles voluntarily depends on motivation and will power or the physical condition and level of fatigue of the muscles, for instance. The latter particularly ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Medical researchers discover hidden side of prion diseases
Medical researchers in Canada and the United States recently published their joint findings that fatal prion diseases, which include BSE or "mad cow disease," have a hidden signature.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Gray matter in brain's control center linked to ability to process reward
The more gray matter you have in the decision-making, thought-processing part of your brain, the better your ability to evaluate rewards and consequences. That may seem like an obvious conclusion, but a new ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 29, 2011 |
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How the brain strings words into sentences
(Medical Xpress) -- Distinct neural pathways are important for different aspects of language processing, researchers have discovered, studying patients with language impairments caused by neurodegenerative ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Toll-like receptors play role in brain damage in newborns
Two out of every thousand babies are at risk of brain damage in connection with birth. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have identified mechanisms behind these ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Awareness biases information processing
How does awareness influence information processing during decision making in the human brain? A new study led by Floris de Lange of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 22, 2011 |
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New iPhone app keeps eyesight from deteriorating
Deteriorating eyesight, which leads to the use of reading glasses, is a natural part of the aging process. But a new iPhone application developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University could keep your vision ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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