Neuroscience
Buzzing the brain with electricity can boost working memory
Scientists have uncovered a method for improving short-term working memory, by stimulating the brain with electricity to synchronise brain waves.
Mar 14, 2017
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Neuroscience
MRI scans reveal surprising similarities in activity patterns of infant and adult visual cortex
In adults, certain regions of the brain's visual cortex respond preferentially to specific types of input, such as faces or objects—but how and when those preferences arise has long puzzled neuroscientists.
Jan 11, 2017
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Neuroscience
Researchers find brain's 'physics engine' predicts how world behaves
Whether or not they aced the subject in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting how objects in the world will behave. A Johns Hopkins University cognitive scientist has ...
Aug 8, 2016
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Neuroscience
Mom's voice activates many different regions in children's brains, study shows
Children's brains are far more engaged by their mother's voice than by voices of women they do not know, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.
May 16, 2016
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Neuroscience
William James revisited: Ongoing brain activity and connectivity influence variability in perception
The brain is an exceedingly complex and active organ in which most neural activity is not directly evoked by, and thereby linked to, specific external events. Moreover, intrinsic activity occurring in one location exhibits ...
Neuroscience
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of brain boosts memory
Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, improves memory, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Aug 28, 2014
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Neuroscience
Targeted brain stimulation aids stroke recovery in mice
When investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine applied light-driven stimulation to nerve cells in the brains of mice that had suffered strokes several days earlier, the mice showed significantly greater ...
Aug 18, 2014
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New tool links Alzheimer's disease types to rate of cognitive decline
Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a series of brain changes characterized by unique clinical features and immune cell behaviors using a new corticolimbic index tool for Alzheimer's disease, a leading cause of dementia.
May 8, 2024
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Medical research
Small molecule shows early-stage promise for repairing myelin sheath damage
When treated with a novel protein function inhibitor called ESI1, mice that mimic the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and lab-prepared human brain cells both demonstrated the ability to regenerate vital myelin coatings ...
May 2, 2024
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Neuroscience
Macaque study sheds light on brain's perception of static images
We may not realize it, but our eyes constantly make rapid movements—two to three per second—even when we're looking at the same spot. Yet despite these frequent eye movements, we still perceive what we see as a stable ...
Apr 29, 2024
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