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Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen have succeeded in demonstrating for the first time that the activities of large parts of the brain can be altered ...





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Thinking too complicated?

Thinking too complicated? Neuronal activity is far more predictable than assumed

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 1

How sensitive are neuronal networks to external interference? To what extent are neuronal network processes including the thinking patterns of the brain predefined? These questions have been investigated by ...


New insights into the dynamics of the brain's cortex

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Using mathematics and a computer model of brain activity, Roberto Fernández Galán, Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has shown a direct link between activity ...


NSAIDs prevent early sign of Alzheimer disease in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If taking nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen or naproxen is to protect you from developing Alzheimer disease then you will have to start taking them at a very early age according to new research ...


Brain study could yield clues to schizophrenia

Brain study could yield clues to schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have revealed the role of one type of brain cell in the development of a process crucial for memory and learning.


Two Brains - One Thought

Two Brains - One Thought

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 31, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Although no two brains are alike, they can display a comparable pattern of neural activity when exposed to similar sensory input. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in ...


Epilepsy marked by neural 'hub' network

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 25, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An increased number of neuron “hubs” in the epileptic brain may be the root cause for the seizures that characterize the disorder, according to a UC Irvine study.


Upending textbook science on Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Alzheimer's disease is caused by the build-up of a brain peptide called amyloid-beta. That's why eliminating the protein has been the focus of almost all drug research pursuing a cure for the devastating neurodegenerative ...


New Discovery Could Rejuvenate the Brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(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 method can predict 80% of cases of postnatal depression

New method can predict 80% of cases of postnatal depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide, 13% of women who give birth suffer from postnatal depression, which causes a significant deterioration in a mother's quality of life and her ability to care for her baby. Now, Spanish researchers ...


Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 24, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (50) | comments 0

Opening a whole new interface between nanotechnology and neuroscience, scientists at Harvard University have used slender silicon nanowires to detect, stimulate, and inhibit nerve signals along the axons and dendrites of ...



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