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Nerve regeneration research and therapy may get boost from new discovery

A new mechanism for guiding the growth of nerves that involves cell-death machinery has been found by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno that may bring advances in neurological medicine and research. ...

Neuroscience created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

From teens' sleeping brains, the sound of growing maturity

Listening in on the electrical currents of teenagers' brains during sleep, scientists have begun to hear the sound of growing maturity. It happens most intensively between the ages of 12 and 16 1/2: After years of frenzied ...

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The neuroscience of finding your lost keys: How the brain keeps track of similar but distinct memories

Ever find yourself racking your brain on a Monday morning to remember where you put your car keys? When you do find those keys, you can thank the hippocampus, a brain region responsible for storing and retrieving ...

Neuroscience created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Brain waves' challenge area-specific view of brain activity

Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas – when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologists led by David Alexander and ...

Neuroscience created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wireless, implanted sensor broadens range of brain research

A compact, self-contained sensor recorded and transmitted brain activity data wirelessly for more than a year in early stage animal tests, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. ...

Neuroscience created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study indicates reverse impulses clear useless information, prime brain for learning

(Medical Xpress)—When the mind is at rest, the electrical signals by which brain cells communicate appear to travel in reverse, wiping out unimportant information in the process, but sensitizing the cells ...

Neuroscience created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Neural 'synchrony' may be key to understanding how the human brain perceives

Despite many remarkable discoveries in the field of neuroscience during the past several decades, researchers have not been able to fully crack the brain's "neural code." The neural code details how the brain's ...

Neuroscience created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Uncovering how humans hear one voice among many

Humans have an uncanny ability to zero in on a single voice, even amid the cacophony of voices found in a crowded party or other large gathering of people. Researchers have long sought to identify the precise ...

Neuroscience created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds electric car does not interfere with implanted cardiac devices

A Mayo Clinic study has concluded that patients with implanted cardiac devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators can safely drive or ride in an electric car without risk of electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Cardiology created Mar 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using human brain cells to make mice smarter

Glial cells – a family of cells found in the human central nervous system and, until recently, considered mere "housekeepers" – now appear to be essential to the unique complexity of the human brain. Scientists reached ...

Medical research created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Even mild traumatic brain injuries can kill brain tissue, study finds

Scientists have watched a mild traumatic brain injury play out in the living brain, prompting swelling that reduces blood flow and connections between neurons to die.

Neuroscience created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover workings of brain's 'GPS system'

Just as a global positioning system (GPS) helps find your location, the brain has an internal system for helping determine the body's location as it moves through its surroundings.

Neuroscience created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

One region, two functions: Brain cells' multitasking key to understanding overall brain function

A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into categories, according to a new study by researchers at the University ...

Neuroscience created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The right dose for oncology

EPFL researchers develop a tool for oncologists using the electrical signature of cancer cells to get just the right treatment dosage for each patient.

Cancer created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Functional electrical stimulation cycling promotes physical, neurological recovery in spinal cord injury

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury finds that long-term lower extremity functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycling, as part of a rehabilitation regimen, ...

Medical research created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast