News tagged with motor cortex


Researchers find brain cell transplants help repair neural damage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Swiss research team has found that using an animal's own brain cells (autologous transplant) to replace degenerated neurons in select brain areas of donor primates with simulated but asymptomatic Parkinson's disease and ...





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Turn On, Tune In, Develop?

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...


Bad driving may have genetic basis, study finds

Bad driving may have genetic basis, study finds

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.


Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systems

Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systems

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated resear ...


Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Most of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A study of captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (Atlanta, Georgia), reported in the January 2010 issue ...


STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up to Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM, announced today that ST has adopted the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, in addition to the Mali-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box ...


Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.


Motor vehicle crashes more common among young drivers who engage in self-harm behaviors

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drivers who engaged in self-harm were at increased risk of motor vehicle crashes, even after controlling for psychological distress and substance abuse, found a study of 18 871 Australian drivers published in CMAJ (Canadian Me ...


Think twice before you boo your competitor

Think twice before you boo your competitor

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Next time you watch a heavy weight lifting tournament, tell the person next to you not to boo the person that he doesn't want to win.


Monetary gain and high-risk tactics stimulate activity in the brain

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monetary gain stimulates activity in the brain. Even the mere possibility of receiving a reward is known to activate an area of the brain called the striatum. A team of Japanese researchers report in the January 2010 issue ...


Children with autism more likely to have handwriting problems

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children with autism may have lower quality handwriting and trouble forming letters compared to children without autism, according to a study published in the November 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journa ...



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