News tagged with neural wiring
Diverse 'connectomes' hint at genes' limits in the nervous system
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Genetics may play a surprisingly small role in determining the precise wiring of the mammalian nervous system, according to painstaking mapping of every neuron projecting to a small muscle mice use to move ...
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'Wiring' in the brain influences personality
Nov 23, 2008 |
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Have you got the new iPhone yet? Do you like changing jobs now and again because you get bored otherwise? Do you go on holiday to different places every year? Then maybe your neural connection between ventral striatum and ...
New Discovery Could Rejuvenate the Brain
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of British Columbia have discovered why the brain loses its capacity to re-grow connections and repair itself, knowledge that could lead to therapeutics that “rejuvenate” the ...
New 'smart' materials for the brain
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 21, 2008 |
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Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published December 21 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, are a ...
Scientists discover a molecular scaffold that guides connections between brain cells
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May 20, 2008 |
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[B]Nonsignaling glial cells can direct synapse formation in the forging of neural networks[/B] Brain cells known as neurons process information by joining into complex networks, transmitting signals to each other across jun ...
Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' networks in learning
Jun 04, 2007 |
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While most people need peace and quiet to cram for a test, the brain itself may need noise to learn, a recent MIT study suggests. In experiments with monkeys, the researchers found that neural activities in the brain gradually ...
New insights into the neural basis of anxiety
Jun 03, 2007 |
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People who suffer from anxiety tend to interpret ambiguous situations, situations that could potentially be dangerous but not necessarily so, as threatening. Researchers from the Mouse Biology Unit of the European Molecular ...
Neural modeling helps expose epilepsy's triggers
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A brain scan of a person experiencing an epileptic seizure looks like the Great Plains during an early evening in midsummer. Fierce electrical storms pop up seemingly at random, proliferate ...
Visualizing brain processes with new techniques
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain's magic is worked by neural circuits, where information is transmitted from one nerve cell to the next. In the heat of the summer, for example, our ability to relish an ice cream ...
Scientists demonstrate link between genetic defect and brain changes in schizophrenia
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 16, 2009 |
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For decades, scientists have thought the faulty neural wiring that predisposes individuals to behavioral disorders like autism and psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia must occur during development. Even so, no one has ...
Scientists create colorful 'brainbow' images of the nervous system
Oct 31, 2007 |
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By activating multiple fluorescent proteins in neurons, neuroscientists at Harvard University are imaging the brain and nervous system as never before, rendering their cells in a riotous spray of colors dubbed ...
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