Neuroscience
Eyes offer a window into the mystery of human consciousness
Since he was a kid Hal Blumenfeld has wondered about the nature of human consciousness.
Dec 8, 2022
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Neuroscience
An Alzheimer's-defying brain offer clues to treatment and prevention of dementia
Aliria Rosa Piedrahita de Villegas should have developed Alzheimer's disease in her 40s and died from the disease in her 60s because of a rare genetic mutation.
Jul 28, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research maps how the brain changes during depression treatment
For the first time, researchers have shown what happens to the brain when a person receives a depression treatment known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). The results were published today in the American ...
May 18, 2022
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Medical research
Neuroscientists find multiple brain regions control speech, challenging common assumption
Neurobiologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine give new meaning to the term "motor mouth" in a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By carefully mapping neural ...
May 4, 2022
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Neuroscience
Human gene variant produces attention deficit disorder-like problems in mice
Mutant mice are providing scientists with a new neurobiological framework to understand the brain changes observed in distractible humans who carry a common gene variant whose frequency has been associated with Attention ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Genetics
Some hard-to-crack genome areas carry genes that make us distinctly humans
UW Medicine genome scientists were among the leading contributors to the publication of the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome announced this week by the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Mar 31, 2022
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Neuroscience
Distant regions of the human brain are wired together by surprisingly few connections
Understanding how the brain functions, particularly how information is processed during different activities, is difficult without knowing how many axons are in the brain and how many connect different functional regions. ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Abnormal heart-brain connection identified in generalized anxiety disorder
Researchers at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have identified an abnormal link between the autonomic and central nervous systems, specifically via communication between the heart and ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Neuroscience
Researchers map glycosylation patterns associated with Alzheimer's disease
Using new methodology, University of Kentucky researchers have mapped the variations in sugar chains attached to brain proteins from deceased healthy individuals or individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
Dec 16, 2021
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Neuroscience
Study finds long- and short-term memory vie for brain space
The brain is a battlefield where cognitive domains vie for limited resources, and this appears to be particularly true during sleep. A University of California, Irvine-led research team has discovered that long-term memory ...
Dec 15, 2021
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