News tagged with neural impulses

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.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Internet addiction disorder characterized by abnormal white matter integrity

Internet addiction disorder may be associated with abnormal white matter structure in the brain, as reported in the Jan. 11 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. These structural features may be linked to behavioral impair ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists map the frontiers of vision

There's a 3-D world in our brains. It's a landscape that mimics the outside world, where the objects we see exist as collections of neural circuits and electrical impulses.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain cell networks recreated with new view of activity behind memory formation

University of Pittsburgh researchers have reproduced the brain's complex electrical impulses onto models made of living brain cells that provide an unprecedented view of the neuron activity behind memory formation.

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers link alcohol-dependence impulsivity to brain anomalies

Researchers already know that alcohol dependence (AD) is strongly associated with impaired impulse control or, more precisely, the inability to choose large, delayed rewards rather than smaller but more immediate rewards. ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

'Can you hear me now?' Researchers detail how neurons decide how to transmit information

There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send signals to one another. Much like a person trying to be heard by his friend across ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Merkel cells revealed as secret behind sensation of light touch

Scientists have proved experimentally what has been suspected since the discovery of Merkel cells in the skin over a century ago: the sense of light touch that is critical for hand dexterity would not be possible without ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Human ES cells progress slowly in myelin's direction

Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, USA, report in the journal Development the successful generation from human embryonic stem cells of a type of cell that can make myelin, a finding that opens up new possibilities for bo ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Study identifies new gene associated with ALS

A collaborative research effort spanning nearly a decade between researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and King’s College London (KCL) has identified a novel gene for inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0