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Sense of touch reproduced through prosthetic hand

In a study recently published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, neurobiologists at the University of Chicago show how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an art ...

Neuroscience created May 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroscientists use statistical model to draft fantasy teams of neurons

This past weekend teams from the National Football League used statistics like height, weight and speed to draft the best college players, and in a few weeks, armchair enthusiasts will use similar measures ...

Neuroscience created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover how brains change with new skills

(Medical Xpress)—The phrase "practice makes perfect" has a neural basis in the brain. Researchers have discovered a set of common changes in the brain upon learning a new skill. They have essentially detected a neural marker ...

Neuroscience created Apr 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hallucinations of musical notation

Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new paper for the neurology journal ...

Neuroscience created Apr 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Research pinpoints, prevents stress-induced drug relapse in rats

All too often, stress turns addiction recovery into relapse, but years of basic brain research have provided scientists with insight that might allow them develop a medicine to help. A new study in the journal Neuron pinpoi ...

Neuroscience created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dartmouth neuroscientist finds free will has neural basis

A new theory of brain function by Peter Ulric Tse, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College, suggests that free will is real and has a biophysical basis in the microscopic workings of our brain cells.

Neuroscience created Mar 01, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 29

Strengthening speech networks to treat aphasia

Aphasia, an impairment in speaking and understanding language after a stroke, is frustrating both for victims and their loved ones. In two talks Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at the conference of the American ...

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

How deficiencies in two genes synergize to halt formation of gut nervous system

Mutations in single genes can cause catastrophic diseases, such as Huntington's Disease or sickle cell anemia. However, many conditions, including cancer, diabetes and birth defects are multigenic, arising ...

Genetics created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How our sense of touch is a lot like the way we hear

(Medical Xpress)—When you walk into a darkened room, your first instinct is to feel around for a light switch. You slide your hand along the wall, feeling the transition from the doorframe to the painted ...

Neuroscience created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | 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

Neural interaction in periods of silence

German neurophysiologists have developed a new method to study widespread networks of neurons responsible for our memory.

Neuroscience created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | 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

'Grassroots' neurons wire and fire together for dominance in the brain

(Medical Xpress)—Inside the brain, an unpredictable race—like a political campaign—is being run. Multiple candidates, each with a network of supporters, have organized themselves into various left- ...

Neuroscience created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Math ability requires crosstalk in the brain

A new study by researchers at UT Dallas' Center for Vital Longevity, Duke University, and the University of Michigan has found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of ...

Neuroscience created Aug 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

The seat of meta-consciousness in the brain

Studies of lucid dreamers visualize which centers of the brain become active when we become aware of ourselves.

Neuroscience created Jul 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast