In a state of hunger or fasting, the increase in food intake that takes place after smelling food is linked to a type 1 cannabinoid receptor in the olfactory bulb, according to a study co-led by a UPV/EHU researcher and published ...
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In early childhood, the neurons inside children's developing brains form connections between various regions of brain "real estate." As described in a paper published last week in the journal Biological Psychiatry, cognitive ...
Apr 8, 2015
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A series of studies conducted by Randy Bruno, PhD, and Christine Constantinople, PhD, of Columbia University's Department of Neuroscience, topples convention by showing that sensory information travels to two places at once: ...
Jun 27, 2013
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Researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, have discovered a new molecular 'switch' that controls the ...
Sep 10, 2015
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Shakespeare famously referred to "the mind's eye," but scientists at USC now have also identified a "mind's touch."
Sep 8, 2011
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New findings clarify where and how the brain's "slow waves" originate. These rhythmic signal pulses, which sweep through the brain during deep sleep at the rate of about one cycle per second, are assumed to play a role in ...
Apr 18, 2013
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Humans depend on their senses to perceive the world, themselves and each other. Despite senses being the only window to the outside world, people do rarely question how faithfully they represent the external physical reality. ...
Jan 8, 2021
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with members from facilities in Finland, the U.S., and the U.K. has found a way to mimic the process that leads to folds in mammalian brains. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Scientists at the University of Michigan Health System have for the first time demonstrated how memory circuits in the brain refine themselves in a living organism through two distinct types of competition between cells.
Jun 23, 2011
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New insights into the architecture of the brain have been revealed by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and their collaborators. The researchers discovered that cells ...
Mar 16, 2020
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