Neuroscience
A new study shows how neurochemicals affect fMRI readings
The brain is an incredibly complex and active organ that uses electricity and chemicals to transmit and receive signals between its sub-regions.
Mar 18, 2024
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News tagged with functional magnetic resonance
Neuroscience
For people who speak many languages, there's something special about their native tongue
A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language.
Mar 10, 2024
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Neuroscience
The brain builds emotions regardless of the senses, neuroscientists find
How much do our emotions depend on our senses? Does our brain and body react in the same way when we hear a fearful scream, see an eerie shadow, or smell a sinister odor? And does hearing upbeat music or seeing a colorful ...
Mar 8, 2024
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Surgery
Doctors can now watch spinal cord activity during surgery
With technology developed at UC Riverside, scientists can, for the first time, make high resolution images of the human spinal cord during surgery. The advancement could help bring real relief to millions suffering chronic ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Neuroscience
Researchers reveal human brain mechanisms for subconscious collision detection
A research team has revealed the human subcortical neural pathway underlying the automatic detection of collision trajectories, even in the absence of attention and awareness. The work was published in PLOS Biology.
Feb 26, 2024
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Neuroscience
Digital therapy app significantly improves speech in stroke patients
A UCL-developed app that provides speech therapy for people with the language disorder aphasia has been found to significantly improve their ability to talk.
Feb 21, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study offers new clues into the causes of post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome
In a detailed clinical study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found differences in the brains and immune systems of people with post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (PI-ME/CFS). ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Neuroscience
Insula in focus: How stress affects alcohol cravings
A randomized controlled study conducted by researchers at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim has examined the effects of stress on neural reactivity to alcohol cues and addiction behavior. The study ...
Feb 8, 2024
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Neuroscience
Patterns of brain connectivity found to differ between pre-term and term babies
A new King's College London scanning study of 390 babies has shown distinct patterns between term and pre-term babies in the moment-to-moment activity and connectivity of brain networks.
Feb 8, 2024
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Neuroscience
Study finds strongest evidence to date of brain's ability to compensate for age-related cognitive decline
Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that our brains can compensate for age-related deterioration by recruiting other areas to help with brain function and maintain cognitive performance.
Feb 6, 2024
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