Neuroscience
Why do we forget? New theory proposes 'forgetting' is actually a form of learning
We create countless memories as we live our lives but many of these we forget. Why?
Jan 13, 2022
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Reviews Neuroscience (ISSNÂ 1471-0048) is a review journal covering neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience covers the breadth and depth of modern neuroscience by providing an authoritative, accessible, topical, and engaging first port of call for scientists who are interested in all aspect of neuroscience -- from molecules to the mind.
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country
- United States
- History
- 2000–present
- Website
- http://www.nature.com/nrn
- Impact factor
- 30.445 (2011)
Neuroscience
New framework for analyzing Alzheimer's disease identifies not one form, but three
According to the commonly accepted model, Alzheimer's disease is characterized by an ineluctable sequence, from the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain to dementia resulting from neurodegeneration. While this deterministic ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Neuroscience
The future of neural network models
Neuroscience is a field most obviously associated with medicine and/or psychology. However, my background in physics and computer science enables me to explore, and further understand, how the brain computes and stores information, ...
Aug 20, 2021
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Neuroscience
Survival after cardiac arrest: Cardiovascular surgeons develop a new technique
Around 50,000 people suffer sudden cardiac arrest in Germany every year. When occurring outside a hospital, the chances of survival are only ten percent. Survivors often suffer from severe permanent neurological damage. On ...
Jul 22, 2021
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Neuroscience
Learning hierarchical sequence representations across human cortex and hippocampus
Humans experience sensory input continuously as segmented units of words and events. The ability of the brain to discover regularities is known as statistical learning. This concept can be represented at multiple levels including ...
Neuroscience
Social media use driven by search for reward, akin to animals seeking food, new study shows
Our use of social media, specifically our efforts to maximize "likes," follows a pattern of "reward learning," concludes a new study by an international team of scientists.
Feb 26, 2021
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Neuroscience
Exploring how social touch affects communication between female animals
The sense of touch can significantly affect how animals and humans perceive the world around them, enriching their experiences and allowing them to gather more information about their surroundings and other living organisms. ...
Neuroscience
Designing animal studies to improve research reproducibility and reduce animal use
Animal experiments are typically conducted under highly standardized laboratory conditions. While standardization is meant to improve reproducibility of scientific results, in reality reproducibility is surprisingly low. ...
Jun 2, 2020
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Neuroscience
Sex bias in pain research
It is increasingly clear that male and female humans and rodents process pain in different ways. And that there are important differences in the underlying mechanisms involved at genetic, molecular, cellular, and physiological ...
May 21, 2020
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Medical research
Study of the nervous system could have implications for regenerative medicine and cancer
In order for the central nervous system to communicate to the rest of the body, the brain and spinal cord house nerves that send and receive signals via neurons or nerve cells. This communication can take place only because ...
Sep 23, 2019
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