News tagged with neural activity
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Cochlear implants may be safe, effective for organ transplant patients
Cochlear implants may be a safe, effective option for some organ transplant patients who've lost their hearing as an unfortunate consequence of their transplant-related drug regime, researchers report.
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Making the worms turn
To biophysicist Aravinthan Samuel, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans provides a pathway to understanding the brain and nervous system, first of the worm, then of higher animals, and even, perhaps, of humans.
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Brain imaging, behavior research reveals physicians learn more by paying attention to failure
When seeking a physician, you should look for one with experience. Right? Maybe not. Research on physicians' decision-making processes has revealed that those who pay attention to failures as well as successes become more ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Attention and awareness uncoupled in brain imaging experiments
In everyday life, attention and awareness appear tightly interwoven. Attending to the scissors on the right side of your desk, you become aware of their attributes, for example the red handles. Vice versa, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Scientists pinpoint the brain circuitry linked to making healthy or unhealthy choices
(Medical Xpress) -- What drives addicts to repeatedly choose drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, overeating, gambling or kleptomania, despite the risks involved?
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Oct 30, 2011 |
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Study links Fragile X Syndrome proteins and RNA editing mistakes at nerve-muscle junction
The most common form of heritable cognitive impairment is Fragile X Syndrome, caused by mutation or malfunction of the FMR1 gene. Loss of FMR1 function is also the most common genetic cause of autism. Understanding ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 30, 2011 |
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Brain imaging study: A step toward true 'dream reading'
When people dream that they are performing a particular action, a portion of the brain involved in the planning and execution of movement lights up with activity. The finding, made by scanning the brains of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists unlock shared brain codes
A team of neuroscientists at Dartmouth College has shown that different individuals' brains use the same, common neural code to recognize complex visual images.
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Oct 20, 2011 |
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Musical aptitude relates to reading ability
Auditory working memory and attention, for example the ability to hear and then remember instructions while completing a task, are a necessary part of musical ability. But musical ability is also related to verbal memory ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 17, 2011 |
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New modeling of brain's circuitry may bring better understanding of Parkinson's disease
Researchers from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have developed a mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry that may provide a better understanding of how and why information ...
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Bursting neurons follow the same beat, sometimes
A simplified mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry shows that repetitious, overlapped firing of neurons can lead to the waves of overly synchronized brain activity that may cause the halting movements that are ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Darkness sheds light on neural computations
In order to make sense of its environment, the brain forms and maintains an internal model of the external world. A study published in the journal Science shows that neural activity recorded in darkness, uncove ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Mild hearing loss linked to brain atrophy in older adults
A new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that declines in hearing ability may accelerate gray mater atrophy in auditory areas of the brain and increase the listening ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Research team finds human brain particularly sensitive to images of animals
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have long known that the right amygdala (one of two almond-shaped parts of the brain located deep with the temporal lobes) is heavily involved in processing memory and emotional ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 30, 2011 |
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'Time cells' bridge the gap in memories of event sequences
The hippocampus is a brain structure that plays a major role in the process of memory formation. It is not entirely clear how the hippocampus manages to string together events that are part of the same experience but are ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 24, 2011 |
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