What happens in the brain when listening to the rhythmic pace of a song, or when waiting for a traffic light to turn green? For the first time, an imaging study shows that a time map exists in a specific area of the human ...
Mar 25, 2019
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Our brain comprises 85 billion nerve cells and just as many so-called glial cells, which work in close contact with the former to guarantee their proper function. All originate from brain stem cells. But what decides when ...
Mar 5, 2019
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Promises of food, sums of money or entertaining pastimes: it does not matter what the temptation is, a new study shows that patients suffering from Parkinson's disease who are treated with Deep Brain Stimulation of the subthalamic ...
Feb 26, 2019
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A study by SISSA shows that, contrary to younger individuals, centenarians recognise natural foods more accurately than processed foods because they have eaten them with greater frequency over their lifetime. This result ...
May 11, 2018
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The results of a new study conducted by Damiano Terenzi, Raffaella Rumiati and Marilena Aiello of SISSA show that "binge eating," which affects some Parkinson's patients, is associated with an impairment of working memory. ...
Apr 4, 2018
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How are raw sensory signals transformed into a brain representation of the world that surrounds us? The question was first posed over 100 years ago, but new experimental strategies make the challenge more exciting than ever. ...
Feb 9, 2018
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A study led by Valentina Parma, researcher at the SISSA of Trieste, and Professor Umberto Castiello of the University of Padua, just published in Scientific Reports, shows that hand preference is already well defined at the ...
Dec 5, 2017
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Do you express your emotions? Are you able to name them, talk about them, relate to your feelings? If your answer is not an unqualified yes, you might be among the 10 percent of the healthy population who has difficulty processing ...
Oct 27, 2017
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Parkinson's disease and prion diseases are very different as regards both origins and course. Nonetheless, a research group of SISSA, headed by Professor Giuseppe Legname, has discovered an unexpected and important link between ...
Sep 15, 2017
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Empathy and emotional awareness do not affect our moral decisions. This is suggested by a new study published on Social Neuroscience and led by SISSA neuroscientist Marilena Aiello. Our choices do not depend on our empathy. ...
Feb 17, 2017
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