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A new study led by Monash University researchers has shed light on the factors shaping the intricate wiring of our brains. The research, published in the journal Cell, reveals that the brain's complex wiring diagram, known ...
Jun 29, 2026
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Many Australians living with neurological disorders, such as motor neuron disease and multiple sclerosis, experience speech difficulties and may lose their ability to speak.
Jun 29, 2026
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Most of the tasks that humans complete daily entail carefully coordinating movements and tracking progress made toward a desired goal. Past studies have highlighted the role of the basal ganglia (BG), a set of interconnected ...
Scientists may have discovered a new role for the cerebellum, the part of the brain that sits at the base of the skull. A new paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reports that different parts of the cerebellum ...
For most of us, watching a movie feels effortless. We follow dialogue, read facial expressions, notice music cues and shifting scenery, and somehow fuse it all into a coherent story. But beneath that smooth experience, the ...
Jun 22, 2026
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Following stroke, patients have a hard time performing coordinated movements. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is emerging as a treatment to improve poststroke coordination, but the mechanisms for this motor improvement ...
Jun 22, 2026
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For many people, the thought of a tasty burger or a cold pint of beer conjures a vivid mental image and drives behavior. This link between thinking and doing serves a clear function—it motivates us to get the necessities ...
Jun 22, 2026
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An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve cells in the brain specialize ...
Jun 18, 2026
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Spiraling waves of neural activity appear and travel in the brain. Scientists hope to learn if these rotating waves on the move play a global role in sensing and interpreting internal and external stimuli, in laying down ...
Jun 18, 2026
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For almost a century, budding neuroscientists have been taught that the headband-like strip of brain tissue over our ears that controls our movements, called the motor cortex, contains an orderly map of our bodies. Brain ...
Jun 18, 2026
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