Archive: 04/12/2017

Advances to brain-interface technology provide clearer insight into visual system

Carnegie Mellon University engineers and cognitive neuroscientists have demonstrated that a new high-density EEG can capture the brain's neural activity at a higher spatial resolution than ever before.

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Thyroid hormone therapy heals lung fibrosis in animal study

Thyroid hormone therapy significantly resolves fibrosis, or scarring, in the lungs of mice, increasing their survival from disease, a Yale-led study shows. These provide a novel insight into the development of pulmonary fibrosis ...

Dec 4, 2017

Neuroscientists discover networks of neurons that stretch or compress their activity to control timing

Timing is critical for playing a musical instrument, swinging a baseball bat, and many other activities. Neuroscientists have come up with several models of how the brain achieves its exquisite control over timing, the most ...

Dec 4, 2017

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Brain researchers gain greater understanding of how we generate internal experiences

Our mental life is rich with an enormous number of internal experiences. The diversity of these experiences is astonishing. We can vividly recall an episode from childhood as well as what we did just five minutes ago. We ...

Dec 4, 2017

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New Alzheimer's animal model more closely mimics human disease

By injecting human Alzheimer's disease brain extracts of pathological tau protein (from postmortem donated tissue) into mice with different amounts of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques in their brains, researchers from the Perelman ...

Dec 4, 2017

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Women are naturally more fit than men

Women can process oxygen more quickly than men when they start to exercise, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.

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New immunotherapy targets misshapen protein in rare childhood brain cancer

Children with an extremely deadly form of brain cancer might benefit from a new treatment that aims to direct an immune response against an abnormally shaped protein found exclusively on cancer cells, according to a new study ...

Dec 4, 2017