Neuroscience
In trial, brain zaps gave seniors a month-long memory boost
If you're a senior who struggles to remember where you put your car keys, could noninvasive brain stimulation boost your memory?
Aug 22, 2022
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Research team reads minds to understand human tool use
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an astonishing discovery about how our brains control our hands.
May 10, 2021
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Neuroscience
How brain rhythms organize our visual perception
To investigate how information of different visual features is processed in the brain, the neuroscientists from the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute of Primate Research in Göttingen, Germany, the Iran University ...
Sep 9, 2019
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Neuroscience
How doctors make diagnoses
Doctors use similar brain mechanisms to make diagnoses and to name objects, according to a study published in the Dec. 14 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE and led by Marcio Melo of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Dec 14, 2011
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Neuroscience
Discovery of communication link between brain areas implicated in schizophrenia
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in cognitive functions such as attention, memory and decision-making. Faulty wiring between PFC and other brain areas is thought to give rise to a variety of cognitive disorders. ...
Apr 7, 2015
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Study unravels central mystery of Alzheimer's disease
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shed light on one of the major toxic mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease. The discoveries could lead to a much better understanding of the Alzheimer's process and how ...
Apr 10, 2013
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Neuroscience
Team shows that electrical synapses occur throughout brain, can influence individual nerve cells
Electrical synapses are omnipresent and yet hardly explored. They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope.
Apr 5, 2022
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Addiction
Mindfulness meditation IBMT trims craving for tobacco
Addiction to smoking and other substances involves a particular set of brain areas related to self-control, according to numerous research. For a new study, researchers wondered if a training approach designed to influence ...
Aug 5, 2013
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Medical research
The insular cortex processes pain and drives learning from pain
Pain is a deterrent that trains organisms to avoid future harmful situations. This is called "threat learning," and helps animals and humans to survive. But which part of the brain actually warns other parts of the brain ...
May 16, 2019
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Neuroscience
How we retrieve our knowledge about the world
In order to find our way in the world, we classify it into concepts, such as "telephone." Until now, it was unclear how the brain retrieves these when we only encounter the word and don't perceive the objects directly. Scientists ...
May 7, 2021
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