In addition to communicating with neurotransmitters, the brain also uses small proteins called neuropeptides. Neuropeptides send signals between neurons, working similarly to neurotransmitters but with key differences like ...
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Artificial intelligence. Gene editing. mRNA vaccines. It's safe to say the past few decades have felt like the next big wave of medicine. However, what continues to be needed in virtually every field is a personalized approach ...
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Injured limbs need rest. They are often kept in a sling or cast to immobilize them as a way to promote healing. But that can mean smaller and weaker muscles several weeks later. It takes a long time to rehabilitate these ...
May 9, 2023
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More than ever before, people with epilepsy are living normal lives. The key is to get treatment, typically a medication, for seizures—the unpredictable disruptions in the brain's electrical system that are the hallmark ...
May 9, 2023
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The touch of another person may increase levels of the "feel-good" hormone oxytocin. But the context really matters. The situation impacts oxytocin levels not only in the moment, but also later, as is shown by researchers ...
May 9, 2023
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A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has made a key advance in understanding how predictive processing is enabled/implemented in the human brain and shows that it may be modulated through non-invasive ...
May 9, 2023
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Past neuroscience studies suggest that when deciding their next actions, mice and other rodents tend to replay past outcomes of similar situations in their brain, which is reflected in a rapid activation of certain brain ...
Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Behavioral Health, Neurological Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio have authored a case report on the positive effects of psilocybin on color blindness.
Is it possible to fully reconstruct what someone sees based on brain signals alone? The answer is no, not yet. But EPFL researchers have made an important step in that direction by introducing a new algorithm for building ...
May 3, 2023
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Physical activity after a stroke may be crucial to a more successful recovery, according to a study by Swedish researchers.
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