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Long-distance brain waves focus attention (w/Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as our world buzzes with distractions -- from phone calls to e-mails to tweets -- the neurons in our brain are bombarded with messages. Research has shown that when we pay attention, some of these neurons ...
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Study: Marijuana may affect neuron firing
Nov 29, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists have discovered the active ingredient in marijuana interferes with synchronized activity between neurons in the hippocampus of rats.
Mouse brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function after stroke
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Japanese research group led by Professor Junichi Nabekura in National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS, Japan, found that, after cerebral stroke in one side of the mouse brain, another side of the brain rewires ...
New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have theorized for decades about how neural networks might be able to accomplish the incredibly complex calculations the human brain performs all the time. But simply stabilizing ...
Pulling together increases your pain threshold
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of Oxford rowers shows that members of a team who exercise together are able to tolerate twice as much pain as when they train on their own.
Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Patterns Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use these communities as markers ...
Dynamical theory and novel 4-D colorimetric method reveal modus operandi of intact living brain
Jan 21, 2009 |
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For the brain to achieve its intricate functions such as perception, action, attention and decision making, neural regions have to work together yet still retain their specialized roles. Excess or lack of ...
Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 27, 2009 |
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It is widely known that the brain perceives information before it reaches a person's awareness. But until now, there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of conscious ...
Stages of sleep have distinct influence on process of learning and memory
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Research on the sleeping brain has revealed some fascinating stage-dependent interactions between areas involved in formation and storage of long term memories. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 26th issue ...
Synchronized swimming of algae
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Using high-speed cinematography, scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that individual algal cells can regulate the beating of their flagella in and out of synchrony in a manner that controls their swimming trajectories. ...
Transplanted human stem cells prolong survival in mouse model of rare brain disease
Sep 03, 2009 |
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A new study finds substantial improvement in a mouse model of a rare, hereditary neurodegenerative disease after transplantation of normal human neural stem cells. The research findings, published by Cell Press in the September ...
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