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Brain mechanisms for behavioral flexibility
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2009 |
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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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Identification of a novel neural stem cell type
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Jan 14, 2008 |
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As published in the upcoming issue of G&D, sesearchers from the Sloan-Kettering Institute, led by Dr. Lorenz Studer, have discovered a novel type of neural stem cell, which has a broader differentiation potential than previously ...
The neural basis of 'number sense' in young infants
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Feb 05, 2008 |
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Behavioral experiments indicate that infants aged 4 ˝ months or older possess an early “number sense” that allows them to detect changes in the number of objects. However, the neural basis of this ability was previously unknown.
Enzyme may be a key to Alzheimer's-related cell death
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University researcher has discovered that the amount of an enzyme present in neurons can affect the mechanism thought to cause cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients and may have ...
Study: Color plays role in perception
Apr 19, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists have discovered a neural circuit they say is likely to play an important role in the visual perception of moving objects.
New study pinpoints gene controlling number of brain cells (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 04, 2009 |
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In populating the growing brain, neural stem cells must strike a delicate balance between two key processes - proliferation, in which the cells multiply to provide plenty of starting materials - and differentiation, in which ...
New tool probes brain circuits
Jan 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Jan. 24 online edition of Science that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of blocking and unbloc ...
Study shows nearly 1/3 of human genome is involved in gingivitis
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Gingivitis, which may affect more than one-half of the U.S. adult population, is a condition commonly attributed to lapses in simple oral hygiene habits. However, a new study shows that development and reversal of gingivitis ...
Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Color is normally thought of as a fundamental attribute of an object: a red Corvette, a blue lake, a pink flamingo. Yet despite this popular notion, new research suggests that our perception ...
Scientists find how neural activity spurs blood flow in the brain
Jun 26, 2008 |
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New research from Harvard University neuroscientists has pinpointed exactly how neural activity boosts blood flow to the brain. The finding has important implications for our understanding of common brain imaging techniques ...
Researchers reveal repressor protein blocks neural stem cell development
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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A protein known to repress gene transcription at the molecular level in a variety of processes also blocks embryonic neural stem cells from differentiating into neurons, according to a study by University of California, San ...
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