News tagged with neural activity

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New research reveals exactly how the human brain adapts to injury

For the first time, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts ...

Neuroscience created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study sheds light on how our brains move limbs

(Medical Xpress)—A Queen's University study is giving new insight into how the neurons in our brains control our limbs. The research might one day help with the design of more functional artificial limbs.

Neuroscience created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New discovery in autism-related disorder reveals key mechanism in brain development and disease

A new finding in neuroscience for the first time points to a developmental mechanism linking the disease-causing mutation in an autism-related disorder, Timothy syndrome, and observed defects in brain wiring, according to ...

Neuroscience created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Rhythms in the brain help give a sense of location, study shows

Research at the University of Edinburgh tracked electrical signals in the part of the brain linked to spatial awareness.

Neuroscience created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Neuroscience: The extraordinary ease of ordinal series

Familiar categories whose members appear in orderly sequences are processed differently than others in the brain, according to new research published by David Eagleman in the open access journal Frontiers in Neuroscience on Dec ...

Neuroscience created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research finds a connection between bonding and matched movements

(Medical Xpress)—Humans have a tendency to spontaneously synchronize their movements. For example, the footsteps of two friends walking together may synchronize, although neither individual is consciously ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

AES: Brain's stress response differs among epilepsy patients

(HealthDay)—There is a significant difference in the brain's response to stress among patients with epilepsy who believe stress is an important factor in seizure control compared to those who do not, according ...

Neuroscience created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hand use improved after spinal cord injury with noninvasive stimulation

By using noninvasive stimulation, researchers were able to temporarily improve the ability of people with spinal cord injuries to use their hands. The findings, reported on November 29th in Current Biology, a Cell ...

Neuroscience created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Musical duets lock brains as well as rhythms

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have shown that synchronization emerges between brains when making music together, and even when musicians play different voices. ...

Neuroscience created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Neurons made from stem cells drive brain activity after transplantation in laboratory model

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers and patients look forward to the day when stem cells might be used to replace dying brain cells in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. Scientists are ...

Neuroscience created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A better brain implant: Slim electrode cozies up to single neurons

(Medical Xpress)—A thin, flexible electrode developed at the University of Michigan is 10 times smaller than the nearest competition and could make long-term measurements of neural activity practical at ...

Neuroscience created Nov 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Early stress may sensitize girls' brains for later anxiety

High levels of family stress in infancy are linked to differences in everyday brain function and anxiety in teenage girls, according to new results of a long-running population study by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.

Neuroscience created Nov 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Learning who's the top dog: Study reveals how the brain stores information about social rank

Researchers supported by the Wellcome Trust have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn ordinary information. The study provides clues as to how this information ...

Neuroscience created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biologists announce unique spinal nerve cell activity discovery

Scientists from the University of Leicester have hit upon unique forms of spinal nerve activity that shape output of nerve cell networks controlling motor behaviours.

Neuroscience created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How connections in the brain must change to form memories could help to develop artificial cognitive computers

Exactly how memories are stored and accessed in the brain is unclear. Neuroscientists, however, do know that a primitive structure buried in the center of the brain, called the hippocampus, is a pivotal region ...

Neuroscience created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast