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Study shows that individual brain cells track where we are and how we move

(Medical Xpress)—Leaving the house in the morning may seem simple, but with every move we make, our brains are working feverishly to create maps of the outside world that allow us to navigate and to remember ...

Neuroscience created May 03, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Australian scientists map mouse brains in greatest detail yet

(Medical Xpress)—Hopes for a cure for many brain diseases may rest on the humble mouse, now that scientists can map the rodents' brains more thoroughly than ever before.

Neuroscience created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

PET scans monitor brain circuits activated by light, opening new window to brain diseases

(Medical Xpress)—Building on their history of innovative brain-imaging techniques, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new way ...

Neuroscience created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Non-invasive mapping helps to localize language centers before brain surgery

A new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique may provide neurosurgeons with a non-invasive tool to help in mapping critical areas of the brain before surgery, reports a study in the April issue of Neurosurgery, offici ...

Neuroscience created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is Obama's plan to map the human brain this generation's equivalent to landing a man on the moon?

President John F. Kennedy's mission in 1960 was to land a man on the moon. President Bill Clinton made cracking the human genome one of his top priorities. Now, President Barack Obama says a detailed map ...

Neuroscience created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Game of Japanese chess reveals how experts develop their capacity for rapid problem-solving

(Medical Xpress)—The superior capability of experts to rapidly solve problems depends largely on their intuition, and it has long been known that this is related to experience and training. Although many ...

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanotools for neuroscience and brain activity mapping

(Medical Xpress)—The ambitious and controversial Brain Activity Map (BAM), initiative instituted by a small group of researchers last year, has been steadily gaining momentum. Earlier this week, a proof ...

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Strengthening speech networks to treat aphasia

Aphasia, an impairment in speaking and understanding language after a stroke, is frustrating both for victims and their loved ones. In two talks Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at the conference of the American ...

Neuroscience created Feb 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New technique comprehensively generates three-dimensional maps of gene expression in the brain

A research team led by Yuko Okamura-Oho and Hideo Yokota of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, has developed a novel technique for three-dimensional (3D) mapping of gene expression patterns onto ...

Genetics created Jan 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study reveals how the brain categorizes thousands of objects and actions

Humans perceive numerous categories of objects and actions, but where are these categories represented spatially in the brain?

Neuroscience created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the mind can map negative spaces around the body

(Medical Xpress)—The brain's perception of space can determine whether a part of a body which occupies that space is either healthy or "neglected".

Neuroscience created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover surprising complexities in the way the brain makes mental maps

Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10. And each is different, according to new research from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, at the Norwegian ...

Neuroscience created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover gender-based differences in Alzheimer's disease

All patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lose brain cells, which leads to a shrinking, or atrophy, of the brain. But the pattern of gray matter loss is significantly different in men and women, according to a study presented ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insight into why haste makes waste

Why do our brains make more mistakes when we act quickly? A new study demonstrates how the brain follows Ben Franklin's famous dictum, "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."

Neuroscience created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain mapping shows auto experts recognize cars like people recognize faces

When people – and monkeys – look at faces, a special part of their brain that is about the size of a blueberry "lights up." Now, the most detailed brain-mapping study of the area yet conducted has confirmed ...

Neuroscience created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast