News tagged with neuronal network

NanoCAGE reveals transcriptional landscape of the mouse main olfactory epithelium

The problem in biology of how to identify the promoters of olfactory receptor genes (>1000 genes) has remained unsolved due to the difficulty of purifying sufficient material from the olfactory epithelium. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How the brain cell works: A dive into its inner network

University of Miami biology professor Akira Chiba is leading a multidisciplinary team to develop the first systematic survey of protein interactions within brain cells. The team is aiming to reconstruct genome-wide ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicists 'turn signals' for neuron growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper scheduled for publication in the January issue of Nature Photonics describes the use of spinning microparticles to direct the growth of nerve fiber, a discovery that could allow ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher creates neurons that light up as they fire

In a scientific first that potentially could shed new light on how signals travel in the brain, how learning alters neural pathways, and might lead to speedier drug development, scientists at Harvard have created genetically-altered ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Control of fear in the brain decoded

When healthy people are faced with threatening situations, they react with a suitable behavioural response and do not descend into a state of either panic or indifference, as is the case, for example, with ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create the first artificial neural network out of DNA

Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Controlling movements with light

German researchers at the Ruhr-Universitaet have succeeded in controlling the activity of certain nerve cells using light, thus influencing the movements of mice. By changing special receptors in nerve cells of the cerebellum ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers connect neurons to computers to decipher the enigmatic code of neuronal circuits

Machine logic is based on human logic. But although a computer processor can be dissembled and dissected in logical steps, the same is not true for the way our brains process information, says Mark Shein of ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New technology could inspire brain implant for detecting and treating seizures

(Medical Xpress) -- Tiny electrodes have been coated with a drug-loaded polymer in an attempt to design an implant capable of detecting a number of neurological symptoms, such as those associated with an epileptic ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | 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

A giant interneuron for sparse coding

A single interneuron controls activity adaptively in 50,000 neurons, enabling consistently sparse codes for odors.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify neuron types that mediate different behavioral states

In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Florida Institute have provided one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the detailed architecture of individual functionally characterized neurons in the cerebral ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Web-crawling the brain

The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Molecular mechanism contributing to neuronal circuit formation found

German scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen have discovered how sensory and motor fibers interact during development of neuronal circuits in the limbs: Both types of nerve fibers can guide this process. With this finding, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biologists gain new insights into brain circuit wiring

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered new ways by which nerves are guided to grow in highly directed ways to wire the brain during embryonic development.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast