News tagged with neural response

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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

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

Engineering a photo-switch for nerve cells in the eye and brain

(Medical Xpress)—Chemists and vision scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have designed a light-sensitive molecule that can stimulate a neural response in cells of the retina and brain—a ...

Medical research created Nov 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Self-affirmation enhances performance, makes us receptive to our mistakes

Life is about failure as much as it is about success. From the mistakes we make at work or school to our blunders in romantic relationships, we are constantly reminded of how we could be better. By focusing on the important ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Autistic adults have unreliable neural responses, study finds

Autism is a disorder well known for its complex changes in behavior—including repeating actions over and over and having difficulty with social interactions and language. Current approaches to understanding ...

Neuroscience created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Assisted listening devices benefit children with dyslexia

(HealthDay)—For children with dyslexia, the use of assistive listening devices (classroom frequency modulation [FM] systems) reduces auditory processing variability, with concomitant improvements in reading ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mice have distinct subsystem to handle smell associated with fear

A new study finds that mice have a distinct neural subsystem that links the nose to the brain and is associated with instinctually important smells such as those emitted by predators. That insight, published ...

Neuroscience created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The neurological basis for fear and memory

Fear conditioning using sound and taste aversion, as applied to mice, have revealed interesting information on the basis of memory allocation.

Neuroscience created Jun 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists find that neurological changes can happen due to social status

Researchers at Georgia State University have discovered that in one species of freshwater crustaceans, social status can affect the configuration of neural circuitry.

Neuroscience created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brains of frequent dance spectators exhibit motor mirroring while watching familiar dance

Experienced ballet spectators with no physical expertise in ballet showed enhanced muscle-specific motor responses when watching live ballet, according to a Mar. 21 report in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Neuroscience created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoyment

What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences.

Neuroscience created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Music training has biological impact on aging process

Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first to provide biological evidence that ...

Neuroscience created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Group settings can diminish expressions of intelligence, especially among women

In the classic film "12 Angry Men," Henry Fonda's character sways a jury with his quiet, persistent intelligence. But would he have succeeded if he had allowed himself to fall sway to the social dynamics of that jury?

Neuroscience created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop comprehensive, accessible vision testing device

Eighty-five percent of children's learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain parasite directly alters brain chemistry

A research group from the University of Leeds has shown that infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in 10-20 per cent of the UK's population, directly affects the production of dopamine, a key chemical messen ...

Medical research created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast