News tagged with mt neurons
Sensory wiring for smells varies among individuals
If, as Shakespeare's Juliet declared, a rose by any other name smells as sweet – to you and to me and to anyone else who sniffs it – then one might assume that our odor-sensing nerve cells are all wired in the same ...
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Mar 30, 2011 |
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Brain mechanisms for behavioral flexibility
New research provides insight into how the brain can execute different actions in response to the same stimulus. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that i ...
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Apr 15, 2009 |
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Warning! Collision imminent! The brain's quick interceptions help you navigate the world
Researchers at The Neuro and the University of Maryland have figured out the mathematical calculations that specific neurons employ in order to inform us of our distance from an object and the 3-D velocities of moving objects ...
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Feb 07, 2012 |
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Neuroscientists find greater complexity in how we perceive motion
How we perceive motion is a significantly more complex process than previously thought, researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science, Stanford University and the University of Washington have found. Their ...
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Dec 05, 2011 |
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Researchers show there's more than one way to read - with implications for reading disorders
(Medical Xpress) -- With specificity and precision, the brain's Visual Word Form Area, or VWFA, does exactly what its name implies. Every time we see something that looks like a word, it activates. The VWFA ...
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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Microscopes borrow tricks from astronomy to see deep into living tissues
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new microscope technologies to enable biologists to see deep within living tissues and observe critical processes involved in basic biology ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists find famous optical illusion surprisingly potent (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have come up with new insight into the brain processes that cause the following optical illusion:
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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Researchers identify new neurological deficit behind lazy eye
Researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science have identified a new neurological deficit behind amblyopia, or "lazy eye." Their findings, which appear in the most recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, shed a ...
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Sep 10, 2010 |
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Brain's center for perceiving 3-D motion is identified (w/ Video)
Ducking a punch or a thrown spear calls for the power of the human brain to process 3-D motion, and to perceive an object (whether it's offensive or not) moving in three dimensions is critical to survival. ...
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Jul 21, 2009 |
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How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It
In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- like rocks -- appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that ...
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Apr 03, 2009 |
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Decreased activity of basal ganglia is the main cause of abnormal muscle constrictions in dystonia
Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary abnormal muscle constrictions. More than 300,000 people in North America are affected, but the mechanism of abnormal muscle constrictions has not been well ...
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Engineered stem cells carry promising ALS therapy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using adult stem cells from bone marrow as "Trojan horses"to deliver a nurturing growth factor to atrophied muscles, Wisconsin scientists have successfully slowed the progression of ALS in rats.
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