Neuroscience
Separate brain systems cooperate during learning, study finds
A new study by Brown University researchers shows that two different brain systems work cooperatively as people learn.
Feb 21, 2018
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Scientists restore leg movement in paralyzed primates using wireless neural interface
An international team of scientists has used a wireless "brain-spinal interface" to bypass spinal cord injuries in a pair of rhesus macaques, restoring intentional walking movement to a temporarily paralyzed leg. The researchers, ...
Nov 9, 2016
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Neuroscientists establish brain-to-brain networks in primates, rodents
Neuroscientists at Duke University have introduced a new paradigm for brain-machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can ...
Jul 9, 2015
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Study finds connection between age-related cognitive decline and dopamine levels
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists broadly regard cognitive decline as a natural condition of aging. However, research has not yet established the mechanisms for age-related differences in brain function between younger and older ...
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Ghost illusion created in the lab: Neuroscientists awaken 'ghosts' hidden inside the cortex (w/ Video)
Ghosts exist only in the mind, and scientists know just where to find them, an EPFL study suggests. Patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric conditions have often reported feeling a strange "presence". Now, EPFL ...
Nov 6, 2014
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Monkey think, monkey do: experiment could lead to paralysis cure
Scientists working on a paralysis cure said Tuesday they had demonstrated how a monkey can use only its thoughts, transferred by electrodes, to manipulate a sleeping fellow primate's arm to do its bidding.
Feb 18, 2014
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Brain circuitry that triggers overeating identified
Sixty years ago scientists could electrically stimulate a region of a mouse's brain causing the mouse to eat, whether hungry or not. Now researchers from UNC School of Medicine have pinpointed the precise cellular connections ...
Sep 26, 2013
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Researcher controls colleague's motions in first human brain-to-brain interface (w/ Video)
(Medical Xpress)—University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control ...
Aug 27, 2013
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How visual attention affects the brain
New work at the University of California, Davis, shows for the first time how visual attention affects activity in specific brain cells. The paper, published June 26 in the journal Nature, shows that attention increases the ...
Jun 26, 2013
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Ophthalmology
Wireless subretinal prostheses allows blind mice to see light
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers from the U.S. and Scotland has developed a new type of retinal prostheses designed to restore sight to blind patients. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, ...
