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How neurons get past 'no': Inhibitory neurons target weakest-responding neurons in brain for signal transmission
When looking at a complex landscape, the eye needs to focus in on important details without losing the big picture—a charging lion in a jungle, for example. Now, a new study by Salk scientists shows how inhibitory neurons ...
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Researchers find the adhesions that build the brain's networks
The brain's neurons tend to get most of the scientific attention, but a set of cells around them called astrocytes—literally, star-shaped cells—are increasingly being viewed as crucial players in guiding a brain to become ...
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Glial cells help mitigate neurological damage in Huntington's disease
The brain is not a passive recipient of injury or disease. Research has shown that when neurons die and disrupt the natural flow of information they maintain with other neurons, the brain compensates by redirecting communications ...
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Covid can infect brain cells: study
The coronavirus can infect brain cells, leading to a reaction that could possibly trigger neurological and psychological complaints, Dutch researchers said on Thursday.
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Marmoset study identifies brain region linking actions to their outcomes
Researchers have discovered a specific brain region underlying 'goal-directed behavior' - that is, when we consciously do something with a particular goal in mind, for example going to the shops to buy food.
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'Fight or flight' discovery in sleepwalkers paves way to new understanding of phenomenon
Somnambulism—otherwise known as sleepwalking—is a phenomenon which has fascinated the public and neurologists for decades, but a lot of what causes it remains a mystery.
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A detailed atlas of the developing brain
Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a first detailed atlas of a critical region of the developing mouse brain, applying multiple advanced genomic technologies to the part ...
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Some good news for those with migraines
A new study from researchers at the University of Toronto found that 63% of Canadians with migraine headaches are able to flourish, despite the painful condition.
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Study finds abnormal response to cellular stress is associated with Huntington's disease
A new University of California, Irvine-led study finds that the persistence of a marker of chronic cellular stress, previously associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal ...
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After stroke, more than one try to remove blood clots may be tied to worse outcome
After a stroke, doctors can try to remove clots in blood vessels to keep blood flowing freely to the brain. But even though most of these procedures are successful, less than half of people have a successful recovery from ...
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Bourneville's tuberous sclerosis: Everything unfolds in the brain shortly after birth
A Canadian research team has uncovered a new mechanism involved in Bourneville tuberous sclerosis (BTS), a genetic disease of childhood. The team hypothesizes that a mutation in the TSC1 gene causes neurodevelopmental disorders ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Combining three techniques boosts brain-imaging precision
Researchers report that they have developed a method to combine three brain-imaging techniques to more precisely capture the timing and location of brain responses to a stimulus. Their study is the first to combine the three ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Melatonin in mice: There's more to this hormone than sleep
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science and the RIKEN BioResource Research Center in Japan, along with collaborators at the State University of New York at Buffalo, have created a mouse model that allows the study ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Exploring a triple-system neural model of maladaptive consumption
A new article published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research presents a neural model of maladaptive consumption.
Jun 23, 2021
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If the right hand is hypersensitive due to an injury to the left
Peripheral nerves refer to nerves that lie outside of the brain and spinal cord. They run throughout the entire body. These bundles of nerve fibers can be damaged in the event of blunt or sharp force trauma due to accidents, ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Dual-window approach offers unprecedented view of brain dynamics
Technologies for imaging the brains of living animals have enabled important scientific advances in recent years. Now, researchers for the first time report an approach that allows simultaneous imaging of multiple areas of ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Researchers outline specific patterns in reading in Russian
Psycholinguists from the HSE Center for Language and Brain, in collaboration with researchers from the City University of New York and the University of Stuttgart, investigated how reading in Russian varies among different ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Autopsy study shows how COVID harms the brain
The brains of people who died from COVID-19 were remarkably similar to the brains of people who die from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, showing inflammation and disrupted circuitry, researchers ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Recycling brain regions: How developing brains prime themselves for learning to read
Scientists studied the brain activity of school-aged children during development and found that regions that activated upon seeing limbs (hands, legs, etc.) subsequently activated upon seeing faces or words when the children ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Study shows brain differences in interpreting physical signals in mental health disorders
Researchers have shown why people with mental health disorders, including anorexia and panic disorders, experience physical signals differently.
Jun 22, 2021
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